<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">Listening</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">In the dark</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">pre-dawn mornings,</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">I listen to the trees.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">Sometimes I hear nothing,</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">but feel their reassuring presence.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">Sometimes words sail</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">into my head,</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">like the goldfinches</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">landing on my bird feeder.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">Today they told me:</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">Ground! Ground deeply.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">You will know people</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">who get ill.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">You may know some who</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">will die.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">You could even be</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">one of them.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">Your task today</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">is to ground and be</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">a solid presence</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">on this patch of earth.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">Watch us</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="">and follow suit.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Maya Spector</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>