<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><font face="Helvetica">Lost</font><div><font face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Must ask permission to know it and be known.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I have made this place around you,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If you leave it you may come back again, saying Here.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">No two trees are the same to Raven,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">No two branches are the same to Wren.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Where you are. You must let it find you.</span></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica"><font color="#373737"><span style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica"><font color="#373737"><span style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - David Wagoner<br></span></font><br></font><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><font face="Helvetica">"Be joyful though you have considered all the facts."</font><div><font face="Helvetica"> - Wendell Berry</font></div></div></div></body></html>