<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Times; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; ">You are cordially invited to join us for an Oral Tradition Poetry Salon</div><div><br></div></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">The Summer Day</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; "><br><div>Saturday, August 8</div><div>at 7:00 PM</div></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; "><br></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; ">at the home of Larry Robinson</div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; ">460 Eleanor Ave.</div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; ">Sebastopol</div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; "><br></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; ">At the height of Summer, we will celebrate our good fortune with good fellowship, potables and edibles and poems and stories learned by heart.</div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; "><br></div><div style="font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">Seating is limited. To reserve a space please </span><u style="font-weight: normal; ">do not reply to this message</u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "> but </span>RSVP to <a href="mailto:Lrobpoet@sonic.net">Lrobpoet@sonic.net</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "> with the names of the people you wish to reserve seats for.</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; "><br></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div></div></div></div></span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-size: medium; "><br></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">The Summer Day</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 22px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">Who made the world?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">Who made the swan, and the black bear?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">Who made the grasshopper?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">This grasshopper, I mean--</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">the one who has flung herself out of the grass,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down--</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,’how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">which is what I have been doing all day.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">Tell me, what else should I have done?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">Tell me, what is it you plan to do</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">with your one wild and precious life?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>- Mary Oliver</div></body></html>