<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=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class="">Expect Nothing </div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Expect nothing. Live frugally</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">On surprise.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Become a stranger</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">To need of pity</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Or, if compassion be freely</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Given out</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Take only enough</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Stop short of urge to plead</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Then purge away the need.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Wish for nothing larger</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Than your own small heart</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Or greater than a star;</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Tame wild disappointment</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">With caress unmoved and cold</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Make of it a parka</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">For your soul.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Discover the reason why</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">So tiny a human midget</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Exists at all</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">So scared unwise</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">But expect nothing. Live frugally</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">On surprise.</div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Alice Walker</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
<div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.”</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Wendell Berry</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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