<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=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Avot V'Imahot</div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="">Initially I resisted, then ultimately embraced their wisdom, their strength. Every day their truth pulsates through me, for they gave me breath. </span></p><div class="" style="border-style: none none solid; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 236, 232); padding: 0in 0in 10pt; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 9.6pt; text-align: justify; border: none; padding: 0in;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(25, 41, 48);">L’dor V’dor. <s class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></s></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="">For unimageable numbers, a virus has stricken, and no longer, do they breathe. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="">For others, it has been a slug of lead or the crush of a knee. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="">No longer do they breathe.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="">The battles fought & the skills developed by our ancestors compel me to fight against the destruction of our planet and to resist the scuttling of our democracy - - to pursue justice on behalf of those who no longer breathe, and by standing on the shoulders of our most notorious ancestor, we say: </span><i class="">Amen</i><span class="">.</span></p></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- David Salm</div></div></body></html>