<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; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">Gratitude</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); 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; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">What did you notice?</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #3d222c"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">The dew snail;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">the low-flying sparrow;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">the bat, on the wind, in the dark;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">big-chested geese, in the V of sleekest performance;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">the soft toad, patient in the hot sand;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">the sweet-hungry ants;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">the uproar of mice in the empty house;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">the tin music of the cricket’s body;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">the blouse of the goldenrod.</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #3d222c"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">What did you hear?</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #3d222c"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">The thrush greeting the morning;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">the little bluebirds in their hot box;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">the salty talk of the wren,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">then the deep cup of the hour of silence.</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #3d222c"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">What did you admire?</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #3d222c"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">The oaks, letting down their dark and hairy fruit;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">the carrot, rising in its elongated waist;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">the onion, sheet after sheet, curved inward to the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); "> pale green wand;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">at the end of summer the brassy dust, the almost liquid</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); "> beauty of the flowers;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">then the ferns, scrawned black by the frost.</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #3d222c"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">What astonished you?</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #3d222c"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">The swallows making their dip and turn over the water.</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #3d222c"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">What would you like to see again?</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #3d222c"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">My dog: her energy and exuberance, her willingness,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); "> her language beyond all nimbleness of tongue, her</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); "> recklessness, her loyalty, her sweetness, her</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); "> sturdy legs, her curled black lip, her snap.</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #3d222c"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">What was most tender?</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #3d222c"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">Queen Anne’s lace, with its parsnip root;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">the everlasting in its bonnets of wool;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">the kinks and turns of the tupelo’s body;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">the tall, blank banks of sand;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">the clam, clamped down.</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #3d222c"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">What was most wonderful?</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #3d222c"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">The sea, and its wide shoulders;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">the sea and its triangles;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">the sea lying back on its long athlete’s spine.</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #3d222c"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">What did you think was happening?</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #3d222c"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">The green breast of the hummingbird;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">the eye of the pond;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">the wet face of the lily;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">the bright, puckered knee of the broken oak;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">the red tulip of the fox’s mouth;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">the up-swing, the down-pour, the frayed sleeve</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); "> of the first snow—</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #3d222c"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); ">so the gods shake us from our sleep.</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #3d222c"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(61, 34, 44); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Mary Oliver</div></body></html>