<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"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 18pt;"><b><font><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What Happens When You Get Lost<o:p></o:p></font></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 18pt;"><b><o:p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 19.5pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Out in the mountains nobody gives you anything.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 19.5pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And you learn what the rules were after the game is over.<br>By then it is already night and it doesn’t make any difference<br>what anyone else is thinking or doing because now you have to<br>turn into an Indian.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 19.5pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You remember stories and now you know that the tellers were<br>part of all they told.<br>And everyone else was, and even you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 19.5pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They’re all around you now, but if you’re afraid you will never find them.<br>And those questions that people always ask-<br>“What would you do if…”<br>They have their own answer right now- nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 19.5pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Some things cannot be redeemed in a hurry no matter what the intentions are.<br>What could be done had to have been done a long time ago.<br>Because mistakes have consequences that do not just disappear.<br>If evil could be canceled easily it would not be very evil.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 19.5pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And so, the stars see you.<br>While you drift away they have their own courses and they watch you.<br>And listen, they already know your name.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- William Stafford</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><o:p><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </font></o:p></p><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>"Be joyful though you have considered all the facts."<div> - Wendell Berry</div></div></div></body></html>