<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: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white; vertical-align: middle;" class="">Moss Carpet, Sky Blanket</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white; vertical-align: middle;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: right; background-color: white; vertical-align: middle;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">Here we are again, fellow traveler.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">Here.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">Again.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">You.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">Me.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">Have the memories started for you yet?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">Here we are again, fellow traveler<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">in yet another troubled time.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">Another troubled time.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">Hearts are burdened.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">Families are being broken.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">Bonds of trust have been dissolved <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">all with the quick-flick<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">of jet-black ink<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">on rough-feeling paper<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">that has never known empathy.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">Here we are again, fellow traveler.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">The curriculum is now set.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">The School of Soft Attention is now taking students.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">Grandmothers of the Buffalo Nation<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">are out there crying and bleeding in the snow again.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">The latest 'Great White Father' doesn't remember,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">and hasn't really<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">let the full history<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">settle into his bones.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">Here we are again, fellow traveler.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">Mothers of the Desert<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">are out there fighting<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">to protect their young<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">along some unknown fence line.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">And you and me...<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">students of the School of Soft Attention...<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">...we're the witnesses<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">that have to see<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">because our hearts can't not<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">and our minds<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">are of The Way,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">and this is our way<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">not to turn away<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class="">from what’s <i class="">really</i> happening.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); letter-spacing: 0.85pt;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><font color="#363636" class=""><span style="letter-spacing: 1.1333333253860474px;" class="">- Robert Rich</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""> </div></body></html>