<html aria-label="message body"><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;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Not old cows yet!</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">My friends and I are older now, </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">slowly losing the grace of younger days</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">We persist in Jazzercise and yoga classes, </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">hoping to retain our youthful strength and grace.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Yet, not all hopes are rewarded;</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Graceful moves elude us.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Floor exercises leave awkward shapes,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">struggling to return to standing.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Once on the floor, we stretch and strengthen,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">having learned that we can lift ourselves.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Little by little, we move each wrinkled part</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">to support ourselves again to standing.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">No one can call us "old cows” yet!</span><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>- Gale Brownell</div></div></body></html>