<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Driving The Car<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; widows: 1;" class="">Getting into my car,</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; widows: 1;" class="">I vow that I will drive with</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; widows: 1;" class="">Mindful care and caution.</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; widows: 1;" class="">If, in fact, this is my vehicle,</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; widows: 1;" class="">For I often step into</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; widows: 1;" class="">Someone else’s car</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; widows: 1;" class="">By accident.</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; widows: 1;" class="">If I have done so now, here in the parking lot of Stop & Shop,</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; widows: 1;" class="">May I smile with self-compassion,</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; widows: 1;" class="">And not curse my cluelessness,</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; widows: 1;" class="">As the cars where I live are all Subarus,</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; widows: 1;" class="">And all the same model, and all the same “jasmine green,”</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; widows: 1;" class="">A bewildering forest of Foresters.</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><br class=""></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18); white-space: pre;"> </span><font color="#121212" class="">- Jenny Allen</font></span><span style="border: 0px; 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