<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=""><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">A NEW YEAR’S REMINDER</span><br clear="none" style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">TO TAPE TO MY CALENDAR</span><br clear="none" style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><br clear="none" style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">Burn the old calendar,</span><span class="ydp20155749yiv4607102545ydp24cbd4a5yiv4546712452ydp627d7705text_exposed_show" style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; display: inline;"><br clear="none" class="">put up the new!<br clear="none" class="">(We humans must always<br clear="none" class="">have something to do.)<br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class="">The date moves on<br clear="none" class="">to the next little box.<br clear="none" class="">Time inches forward<br clear="none" class="">on all the world’s clocks<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;" class="">—</span><br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class="">all Impermanence,<br clear="none" class="">as Buddha said.<br clear="none" class="">No sooner welcomed,<br clear="none" class="">each moment is shred.<br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class="">Life is a shell game,<br clear="none" class="">played on the street<br clear="none" class="">by a trickster who yawns<br clear="none" class="">at the Spirit’s defeat<br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class="">while the Unchanging One,<br clear="none" class="">behind time and space,<br clear="none" class="">patiently waits<br clear="none" class="">to gift us with Grace.<br clear="none" class=""></span><div class=""><span class="ydp20155749yiv4607102545ydp24cbd4a5yiv4546712452ydp627d7705text_exposed_show" style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; display: inline;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="ydp20155749yiv4607102545ydp24cbd4a5yiv4546712452ydp627d7705text_exposed_show" style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; display: inline;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Max Reif</span></div></body></html>