<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 style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class="">The True Word<br class=""><br class="">The word is a catapult, that<br class="">After I climb the mountain,<br class="">Hurls me into the vast sky and blue silence<br class=""><br class="">The true word is an arrow that plunges to the heart of oaks<br class="">Slays falsehood<br class="">Gives wing to imagination<br class=""><br class="">That word is a stone <br class="">Dropping though clear water <br class="">In the well of knowing<br class=""><br class="">Such a word is a match<br class="">Flashing a mountain of dead wood<br class="">Into conflagrations rivaling the sun<br class=""><br class="">Any word is the road that winds as you say<br class="">And goes where you speak<br class=""><br class="">The good word turns anybody into somebody,<br class="">And somebody into a beloved<br class=""><br class="">The seeing word makes small things big, <br class="">Big things small<br class="">All things known<br class=""><br class="">The word makes the tongue a brush,<br class="">The ear a vast canvas of singing images<br class=""><br class="">The true word gives heart, takes heart, <br class="">Sings heart, wakes heart<br class=""><br class="">The word is an old river that whispers forever<br class="">The quietest and best of stories<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Garth Gilchrist<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: inherit;"><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; ">To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch heaven.</span><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><br class=""></span><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>- </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; ">Johannes Gaertner </span></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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