<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 style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Fog Drip</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="">Fog drip, they say,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">replenishes the aquifer.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Redwood needles pull</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">moisture from the mist,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">guiding it down to the roots -</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">and below.</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="">Even in the driest years</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">these patient old ones</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">remain ever green.</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="">Some elders are like that.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">They find the goodness there is</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">and draw it down,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">sustaining themselves</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">while feeding the deeper stream.</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="">They don’t demand attention;</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">they don’t seek profit or approval.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Usually they don’t even know</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">they are doing this.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Do the redwoods know - or care -</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">where the water goes?</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="">Francis of Assisi called down grace</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">by the simple act of gratitude.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">The foxes and the sparrows</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">drank deeply from his fog drip.</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=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Larry Robinson</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="37597CA0-D3BE-414A-AA69-E37ACD6CE88A" src="cid:B64EC516-4F12-41A7-AB76-56BC2E265B7B" class=""></div></body></html>