<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 class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span class="">How to Love</span></span><span class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div class=""><span class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">It’s not so hard<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">But being inarticulate<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">It seems that it lies beyond our grasp<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">We name it, and so in a flash lose it<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">While our heart knows <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">The “ten thousand things” are true, always.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">Sea spray<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">Like oxygen<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">Like the sky <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">Lacks edges<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">And a flock of House Finches in constant motion<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">(Branch to branch)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">sing freely for no reason.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">In the end, it’s like that -<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">A whif of jasmine on the Summer breeze<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""> </span><span class="">A smile</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">A dance<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">A song<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">You stop, and it’s gone</span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Harold Sloane</div></div></body></html>