<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">What the Storms Say</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">We have arrived. Yet<br class="">We are many and gather.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Still yelling at you<br class="">To turn, requiring you</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">To move, demanding<br class="">That you help each other.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">We are screaming for you<br class="">To follow the spiral path</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Of transformation. Our<br class="">Clouds swirl nine miles</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">High, we batter you so<br class="">You will learn your limits.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">We barrel through your<br class="">Cities so you find out</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">You have gone too far.<br class="">You have forgotten too</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Often how we are all <br class="">interconnected. Now</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">We remember. We <br class="">Are calling all of life</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">To acknowledge our<br class="">Indivisibility. Your</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Souls are bound up<br class="">With us, the hurricanes,</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The firestorms, and <br class="">The earthquakes.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">We vibrate, we dance<br class="">In the wild rotations<br class="">Of celestial mirth.<br class="">Our souls follow</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The beat, We are<br class="">Intrepid. We are</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The spirits of change.<br class="">We call on you to</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Reconsider your lives,<br class="">We are the hurricanes,</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Insisting that you hurry, <br class="">Since there is little</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Time before you and <br class="">Your circle of interrelated</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Species will no longer<br class="">Be threatened, You will</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Fall. To survive, you must<br class="">Keep watch and listen.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">You run away to escape<br class="">The very thing you have</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Created. Understand<br class="">This is not possible.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Safety is no where.<br class="">Extinction is upon us.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">And when you return <br class="">From being with us,</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">What will you have?<br class="">Possessions are nothing.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">We do not own one square <br class="">Inch of Mother Earth. She</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Owns us, and she is out <br class="">Of patience. Trust not in<br class="">Material goods. Instead,</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Rely on the wisdom of <br class="">The storms, the tsunami,</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The floods, the tornados,<br class="">The lightning, the thunder.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">See how we turn, We <br class="">Destroy, and we create.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">We challenge you with <br class="">Your future, The time</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Of the Great Migrations,<br class="">Of the Great Turnings,</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Of the magical moments<br class="">Of mountains, The time</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Of epiphany is upon you.<br class="">You have not lost everything.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">What you have bought, what<br class="">You have so carefully counted</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Has passed away. What you <br class="">Can hold is each other. What</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">You can cherish is diversity,<br class="">Multiplicity, all the forms</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Of life. We order you to stand<br class="">Up and take notice. Our</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Firestorms tell you to answer <br class="">Your grief with service. What</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Service? To love one another,<br class="">To care, to give, to help. We</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Are one. Something far greater<br class="">Than your selves are moving.<br class="">Something is being co-created.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">You are like toddlers testing<br class="">Boundaries. You experience</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Limits. All is not about comfort<br class="">Nor about your convenience.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Nor is it about what we own<br class="">Or what we can buy. All is</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">About our relationship to<br class="">Mother Earth and to and</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Amongst her myriad of <br class="">Creatures. There is enough.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">There is a way. The way is<br class="">Acknowledging suffering</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">As part of our path to <br class="">Redemption. The way</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Of holding each other<br class="">And of committing</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">To the protection of <br class="">Sentient being to live</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Together in peace and<br class="">In love. So we, the storm</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Sprits are showing your<br class="">The price of all your lives</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Is to recreate your lives. <br class="">You will run for your lives.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">You will remember what<br class="">You thought your life was.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Then you will know exactly what <br class="">Life is worth. You are hunkered</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Down under the storms. Your lives<br class="">belong to spirit and praise change.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 6px 0px 0px; display: inline; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Patria Brown</p></body></html>