<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;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;"><span class="ydpc198f284html-span ydpc198f284xdj266r ydpc198f284x14z9mp ydpc198f284xat24cr ydpc198f284x1lziwak ydpc198f284xexx8yu ydpc198f284xyri2b ydpc198f284x18d9i69 ydpc198f284x1c1uobl ydpc198f284x1hl2dhg ydpc198f284x16tdsg8 ydpc198f284x1vvkbs" style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="ydpc198f284html-strong ydpc198f284xdj266r ydpc198f284x14z9mp ydpc198f284xat24cr ydpc198f284x1lziwak ydpc198f284xexx8yu ydpc198f284xyri2b ydpc198f284x18d9i69 ydpc198f284x1c1uobl ydpc198f284x1hl2dhg ydpc198f284x16tdsg8 ydpc198f284x1vvkbs ydpc198f284x1s688f" style="text-align: inherit; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Planning And The Execution<br></span></span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I try to prioritize</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">in advance of each morning,</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">map etched in my head</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">before going down</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">to my study</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">eager to pursue</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">those inspirations</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">in a long vibrant session</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">of companionship with truth,</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">beauty, love and surrender</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and then a tree falls</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">through the roof.</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I stop and do the work</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">to get that big trunk</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">cut up and hauled away</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and the roof patched,</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">then looking at my watch</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">am overjoyed to see</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">golden hours</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">yet remain.</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Then a flock of sheep</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">crashes through my window</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">followed by a wolf!</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Round and round they go,</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">my morning plan</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">once again toast.</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It’s another hour</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">before animal control</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">comes for the wolf and</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the sheepdog and shepherd</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">begin guiding the flock</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">back to its own pasture.</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ah, there’s </span><span class="ydpc198f284html-span ydpc198f284xdj266r ydpc198f284x14z9mp ydpc198f284xat24cr ydpc198f284x1lziwak ydpc198f284xexx8yu ydpc198f284xyri2b ydpc198f284x18d9i69 ydpc198f284x1c1uobl ydpc198f284x1hl2dhg ydpc198f284x16tdsg8 ydpc198f284x1vvkbs" style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em class="ydpc198f284html-em ydpc198f284xdj266r ydpc198f284x14z9mp ydpc198f284xat24cr ydpc198f284x1lziwak ydpc198f284xexx8yu ydpc198f284xyri2b ydpc198f284x18d9i69 ydpc198f284x1c1uobl ydpc198f284x1hl2dhg ydpc198f284x16tdsg8 ydpc198f284x1vvkbs" style="text-align: inherit; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">still </em></span><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">precious time</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">before I have to go</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">pay the world its due.</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I’ll edit this piece now</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and maybe it will be</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a new little light</span><br class="ydpc198f284html-br" style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">upon our Earth.</span></font><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>- Max Reif</font></div></div></div></body></html>