<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=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Finding Home</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 19px;" class=""><br class=""></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">I love how the roots of flower and vegetable starts tuck into the fresh </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">soil and make a home for themselves</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">I love how delicious food graces your mouth and then your belly and </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">your whole body seems to wrap around it and take it in.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">I love how when you meet a kindred spirit your heart leaps in </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">recognition of yet another place to call home</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">I love how when you sit in meditation calling all your worldly energy </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">back to yourself that from deep down your breath finds you again</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Or how a simple poem, laughter, or suddenly a favorite song can re-</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">member the scattered and fragile places that you didn’t know were </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">homeless until you did, and you find yourself remarkably, home again</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">And you realize not for the first time, that things sometimes feel elusive </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">but that the fruit, the friend, the food, the song, the breath gathers you </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">up in transport and brings you where you long to be.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 19px;" class=""><br class=""></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Phyllis Kirson</p></div></body></html>