<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><font color="#222222">We</font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">It’s Never Too Late to Begin</span><span class="s3"> </span></span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span><br></span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Every human bond,</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">whether with a person of any species— </span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">that is, an organic living being—</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>or with something whose life is mysterious and secretly self-defined</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>such as a mountain or star—</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span><br></span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">or an image or an idea</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>or a being outside of time,</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>a dweller in realms of mind</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>or an inhabitant of spirit—</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>a task or place or project,</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">or an object that occupies a space in time and heart or mind—</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span><br></span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">every bond has its own</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span><br></span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> landscape</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span><br></span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span> mythscape</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span><br></span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span> inscape/escape</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span><br></span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span> soulscape</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span><br></span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">and is a place of possibility to infinity, </span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>including the possibility of ending.</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span><br></span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If endings come, retreat to some chosen, known haven, </span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">a healing place where you are known</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>and never (or rarely and benevolently) judged—</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>a place where you are loved beyond your own powers to love yourself </span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>or sometimes others—</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span><br></span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span><br></span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And in that place of befriending,</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">whether friendship or flowerscape,</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>innerscape or dreamscape or meaningplace of work,</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>or in the floral-colored waves of ocean </span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>or many-mountained forest light and darkness— </span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>enter the beautiful rooms in the house of your soul.</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span><br></span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Learn by being there</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> what peace can be,</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> what love can come to the quiet heart,</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">how well your soul can feel in unmolested circumstance and solitude,</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>and how deeply and fully and eventually, happily,</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>you can become yourself again,</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>or perhaps for the first time.</span></div><div style="widows: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span><br></span></div><div style="widows: auto; 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