<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></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;"><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;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">The world is both burning and blooming</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">You get the bad news</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">and the sunrise in the same day.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">You cry over the headlines,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">then you laugh at a baby</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">wearing a hat shaped like a bear.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">This is the dual citizenship</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">of being alive.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Rage and reverence,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Grief and grace.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">You are allowed to feel both.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">You are allowed to scream,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">& still notice how good the soup is.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">You don't have to choose.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Let it all in.</span><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> - Karen Salmansohn</span></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>