<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; font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The Stream</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Joy is neither the residue nor</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">the cause of happiness</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Joy stands like an ancient oak</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">in a barren field listening</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">unmoved by any tribulation</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">roots so deep that drought</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">cannot touch them</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">leaves so broad and branches</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">so wide that even the blazing </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">sun is tamed </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Joy makes its own weather</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">laughing through the hail</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">singing through the blizzard</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">moving not a muscle </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">even as flood waters rise </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Joy is the stream and </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">you the trout effortlessly</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">nosing forward </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">in sacred aikido </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">with whatever comes </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Gary Horvitz</span></div></body></html>