<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I will be giving a talk at Open Circle in San Rafael, CA on June 25. I invite you to join me for what I think will be a rich conversation about how to engage in the world with eyes and hearts fully open.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This will be at the Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Ave. from 7:00 to 8:45 PM.</div><div class="">You can find more information here: <a href="https://opencirclecenter.org/event/larry-robinson-jade-teacup-6-25-19/" class="">https://opencirclecenter.org/event/larry-robinson-jade-teacup-6-25-19/</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Hope Is Not For The Wise</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Hope is not for the wise, fear is for fools;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Change and the world, we think, are racing to a fall,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Open-eyed and helpless, in every newscast that is the news:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The time’s events would seem mere chaos but all</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Drift the one deadly direction. But this is only</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The August thunder of the age, not the November.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Wise men hope nothing, the wise are naturally lonely</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">And think November as good as April, the wise remember</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">That Caesar and even Augustus had heirs,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">And men lived on; rich unplanned life on earth</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">After the foreign wars and the civil wars, the border wars</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">And the barbarians; music and religion, honor and mirth</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Renewed life’s lost enchantments. But if life even</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Had perished utterly, Oh perfect loveliness of earth and heaven.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Robinson Jeffers</span></div></div></body></html>