<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">For All</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;"><br></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Ah to be alive<br>
on a mid-September morn<br>
fording a stream<br>
barefoot, pants rolled up,<br>
holding boots, pack on,<br>
sunshine, ice in the shallows,<br>
northern rockies.<br>
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Rustle and shimmer of icy creek waters<br>
stones turn underfoot, small and hard as toes<br>
cold nose dripping<br>
singing inside<br>
creek music, heart music,<br>
smell of sun on gravel.<br>
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I pledge allegiance<br>
<br>
I pledge allegiance to the soil<br>
of Turtle Island,<br>
and to the beings who thereon dwell<br>
one ecosystem<br>
in diversity<br>
under the sun<br>
With joyful interpenetration for all.</p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Gary Snyder</div>
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