<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;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="auto"><font face="Helvetica">Patience</font><div><pre style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; overflow: auto; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><font face="Helvetica"><br></font></pre><pre style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; overflow: auto; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><font face="Helvetica">Patience is
wider than one
once envisioned,
with ribbons
of rivers
and distant
ranges and
tasks undertaken
and finished
with modest
relish by
natives in their
native dress.
Who would
have guessed
it possible
that waiting
is sustainable—
a place with
its own harvests.
Or that in
time's fullness
the diamonds
of patience
couldn't be
distinguished
from the genuine
in brilliance
or hardness.</font></pre><pre style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; overflow: auto; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><font face="Helvetica"> - Kay Ryan</font></pre></div><div><font face="Helvetica"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"></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><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>