<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="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="height: auto;">Apogee</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">The inevitable weightlessness </p><p class="MsoNormal">that occurs at a point</p><p class="MsoNormal">where there is no more </p><p class="MsoNormal">upward progress.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal">And yet the downward journey </p><p class="MsoNormal">has yet to begin.</p><p class="MsoNormal">The inflection between up </p><p class="MsoNormal">and down.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal">The resolution of inertia </p><p class="MsoNormal">and gravity</p><p class="MsoNormal">held in equilibrium</p><p class="MsoNormal">theoretically lasting </p><p class="MsoNormal">no time at all.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">No right</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">No wrong</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">No good</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">No bad</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">No yours</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">No mine</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">No is</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">No was</p><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal">The absolute beauty </p><p class="MsoNormal">of nothingness</p><p class="MsoNormal">never more or less there.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal">And yet it happens every cycle of breath</p><p class="MsoNormal">every heartbeat</p><p class="MsoNormal">every moment before </p><p class="MsoNormal">a thought occurs</p><p class="MsoNormal">where there lies a chance </p><p class="MsoNormal">to behold the exquisite pause</p><p class="MsoNormal">of nothingness </p><p class="MsoNormal">where choice exists.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal">A chance to alter the equation</p><p class="MsoNormal">before something </p><p class="MsoNormal">besides love </p><p class="MsoNormal">happens</p><p class="MsoNormal">or doesn’t.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Carl Sonnen</p></div></div></body></html>