<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=""><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">More Love, More Love<b class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></b></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class=""><i class="">Sorrow is how we learn to love.<o:p class=""></o:p></i></div><div style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;" class=""><i class="">—Rita Mae Brown, </i>Riding Shotgun<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">If sorrow is how we learn to love, <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">then let us learn. <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">Already enough sorrow’s been sown <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">for whole continents to erupt <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">into astonishing tenderness. <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">Let us learn. Let compassion grow rampant, <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">like sunflowers along the highway. <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">Let each act of kindness replant itself <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">into acres and acres of widespread devotion.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">Let us choose love as if our lives depend on it. <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">The sorrow is great. Let us learn to love greater— <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">riotous love, expansive love, <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">love so rooted, so common <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">we almost forget <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">the world could look any other way.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class=""> </div><div style="margin: 0in;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Rosemerrry Wahtola Trommer</div></div></body></html>