<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">In Times of War</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px;">"The most urgent war is always the one fought at home.” </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of all Things</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-kerning: none"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none">In times of war,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none">Which is, to say, all times,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none">It's best to stay</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none">here, live where</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none">the fighting is not.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none">From here, it is easy</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none">to opine, commit men,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none">women and wealth.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-kerning: none"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none">Think and pray,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none">Isn’t that what </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none">We’re good at? </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-kerning: none"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none">Send money</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none">Send blankets</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none">Sympathy and medicine.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none">Send weapons, many weapons. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-kerning: none"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-kerning: none"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Rebecca del Rio </span></div><div><span style="font-kerning: none"><br></span></div></div></body></html>