<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 dir="auto" 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="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab kvgmc6g5 hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="">I keep thinking</span></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="">of the madrone leaves </span></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="">that crackle with a hush</span></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="">when they are hit with first sunlight </span></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="">on the hillside at the place</span></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="">I call</span></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="">Celebration Bend</span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x o9v6fnle c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235);"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">and the way that our</span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">community </span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">center </span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">called the Hub</span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">looks so different</span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">when the first damp</span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">and overcast</span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">autumn evening </span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">appears--</span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">like a nest </span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">among the </span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">calm and gathering</span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">hills</span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x o9v6fnle c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235);"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">but I don't walk much </span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">towards Celebration Bend</span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">these days</span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x o9v6fnle c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235);"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">and we don't gather</span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">at the Hub </span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">because</span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">you know</span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x o9v6fnle c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235);"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">pandemic</span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x o9v6fnle c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235);"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">and other things</span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x o9v6fnle c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235);"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">I want things</span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">back</span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x o9v6fnle c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235);"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">even my </span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">most intimate</span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">observations</span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">and memories</span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x o9v6fnle c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235);"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">Instead</span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="">I keep thinking</span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Amy Elizabeth Robinson</span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal;"><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); white-space: pre-wrap;">This poem was written shortly before Amy’s home and 12 of the 13 homes in her intentional community Monan’s Rill were lost to the Glass Fire. This community, founded in the 1970s, has been the hub of so much of Sonoma County’s peace, justice, watershed ecology, and forest stewardship work over many years. If any of you feel called to help these wonderful people out in this time please go to </span><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 15px;"><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/SupportMonansRill" class="">https://www.gofundme.com/f/SupportMonansRill</a></span><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal;"><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>