<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: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class="">You Reading This, Be Ready</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Starting here, what do you want to remember?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">How sunlight creeps along the shining floor?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">What scent of old wood hovers, what softened</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">sound from outside fills the air?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Will you ever bring a better gift for the world</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">than the breathing respect that you carry</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">wherever you go right now? Are you waiting</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">for time to show you some better thoughts?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">When you turn around, starting here, lift this</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">new glimpse that you found; carry into evening</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">all that you want from this day. This interval you spent</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">reading or hearing this, keep it for life --</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">What can anyone give you greater than now,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">starting here, right in this room, when you turn around?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> - William Stafford</div></div></body></html>