<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;"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><b><br>WAGE PEACE</b><br>
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</span><b> Wage peace with your breath.<br>
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Breathe in firemen and rubble,<br>
breathe out whole buildings and flocks of red wing blackbirds.<br>
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Breathe in terrorists <br>
and breathe out sleeping children and freshly mown fields.<br>
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Breathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees.<br>
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Breathe in the fallen and breathe out lifelong friendships intact.<br>
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Wage peace with your listening: hearing sirens, pray loud.<br>
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Remember your tools: flower seeds, clothespins, clean rivers.<br>
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Make soup.<br>
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Play music, memorize the words for thank you in three languages.<br>
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Learn to knit, and make a hat.<br>
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Think of chaos as dancing raspberries,</b><b></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><b>imagine grief <br>
as the outbreath of beauty <br>
or the gesture of fish<br>
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Swim for the other side.<br>
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Wage peace.<br>
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Never has the world seemed so fresh and precious:<br>
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Have a cup of tea …and rejoice.<br>
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Act as if armistice has already arrived.<br>
Celebrate today.</b><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><br>
</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Judyth Hill ~ September 11, 2001</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 11px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 11px;"><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>