<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Very nice. I too wish that I could stay home and rekindle myself I work in the healthcare industry and cannot do so. I only get these past two weeks off because they’re not taking any chances. An allergy headache that wouldn’t go away and cough got me two weeks of Quarantine. I dream about my residence every day! I can’t wait to go back on Monday. I suppose I could try and write a few poems while I have time. If I do, I’ll post them here.<br><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 47px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Ericka Nelson</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 13, 2020, at 1:00 PM, Jackie via Stylist <stylist@nfbnet.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>I wish I had written this. I was sent this by a cousin in Minneapolis. It</span><br><span>makes me want to go back to poetry. I hope it will inspire all of you.</span><br><span></span><br><span>AND THE PEOPLE STAYED HOME</span><br><span>AND READ BOOKS, AND LISTENED, AND</span><br><span>RESTED AND EXERCISED, AND MADE ART</span><br><span>AND PLAYED GAMES, AND LEARNED NEW</span><br><span>WAYS OF BEING, AND WERE STILL, AND</span><br><span>LISTENED MORE DEEPLY. SOME</span><br><span>MEDITATED, SOME PRAYED, SOME </span><br><span>DANCED, SOME MET THEIR SHADOW.</span><br><span>AND THE PEOPLE BEGAN TO THINK DIFFERENTLY</span><br><span>AND THE PEOPLE HEALED</span><br><span>AND IN THE ABSENSE OF PEOPLE LIVING</span><br><span>IN IGNORANT, DANGEROUS, MINDLESS </span><br><span>AND HEARTLESS WAYS,</span><br><span>THE EARTH BEGAN TO HEAL.</span><br><span>AND WHEN THE DANGER PASSED,</span><br><span>AND THE PEOPLE JOINED TOGETHER AGAIN</span><br><span>THEY GRIEVED THEIR LOSSES, AND MADE</span><br><span>NEW CHOICES, AND DREAMED NEW</span><br><span>IMAGES AND CREATED NEW WAYS TO LIVE</span><br><span>AND HEAL THE EARTH FULLY,</span><br><span>AS THEY HAD BEEN HEALED.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Jacqueline Williams</span><br><span></span><br><span>Clarity is just questioning having eaten its fill.</span><br><span> Jenny Xie</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Writers Division web site</span><br><span>http://writers.nfb.org/</span><br><span>Stylist mailing list</span><br><span>Stylist@nfbnet.org</span><br><span>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/stylist_nfbnet.org</span><br><span>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Stylist:</span><br><span>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/stylist_nfbnet.org/dotwriter1%40gmail.com</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>