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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Ericka,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I am sending the same message I just sent Brigit. I hope it means something to you. I am glad that you explained what you are doing and what this separation from family has meant to you. We need to know these things about our group members.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I think we must keep hope alive even if it runs parallel to the reality of the times.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I do not think the poet who wrote this was trying to be realistic. The idea, to me, was to think beyond all that is happening now and transpose it to future change where everyone in the world who has lived through this will think of new ways in principles of basic living. It will be actions that are compatible with a surviving earth. Rose-colored glasses are necessary to believe this, and of course, for you and Ericka, the details do not apply. But the basic message is still there. Hope.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>My son, who has been on leave from the now closed Mesa Public Schools, still goes to the school every Friday night to turn on the stadium lights for a half-hour. It is to thank all the service providers, and to provide hope. I guess that means you and Ericka. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Jacqueline Williams<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Clarity is just questioning having eaten its fill.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> Jenny Xie<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces@nfbnet.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ericka via Stylist<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 13, 2020 12:22 PM<br><b>To:</b> Writers' Division Mailing List <stylist@nfbnet.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Ericka <dotwriter1@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Stylist] A message of Inspiration<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:35.5pt;font-family:"UICTFontTextStyleBody",serif;color:#454545'>Ericka Nelson</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On Apr 13, 2020, at 1:00 PM, Jackie via Stylist <<a href="mailto:stylist@nfbnet.org">stylist@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'></span>I wish I had written this. I was sent this by a cousin in Minneapolis. It<br>makes me want to go back to poetry. I hope it will inspire all of you.<br><br>AND THE PEOPLE STAYED HOME<br>AND READ BOOKS, AND LISTENED, AND<br>RESTED AND EXERCISED, AND MADE ART<br>AND PLAYED GAMES, AND LEARNED NEW<br>WAYS OF BEING, AND WERE STILL, AND<br>LISTENED MORE DEEPLY. SOME<br>MEDITATED, SOME PRAYED, SOME <br>DANCED, SOME MET THEIR SHADOW.<br>AND THE PEOPLE BEGAN TO THINK DIFFERENTLY<br>AND THE PEOPLE HEALED<br>AND IN THE ABSENSE OF PEOPLE LIVING<br>IN IGNORANT, DANGEROUS, MINDLESS <br>AND HEARTLESS WAYS,<br>THE EARTH BEGAN TO HEAL.<br>AND WHEN THE DANGER PASSED,<br>AND THE PEOPLE JOINED TOGETHER AGAIN<br>THEY GRIEVED THEIR LOSSES, AND MADE<br>NEW CHOICES, AND DREAMED NEW<br>IMAGES AND CREATED NEW WAYS TO LIVE<br>AND HEAL THE EARTH FULLY,<br>AS THEY HAD BEEN HEALED.<br><br>Jacqueline Williams<br><br>Clarity is just questioning having eaten its fill.<br> Jenny Xie<br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Writers Division web site<br><a href="http://writers.nfb.org/">http://writers.nfb.org/</a><br>Stylist mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Stylist@nfbnet.org">Stylist@nfbnet.org</a><br><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/stylist_nfbnet.org">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/stylist_nfbnet.org</a><br>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Stylist:<br><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/stylist_nfbnet.org/dotwriter1%40gmail.com">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/stylist_nfbnet.org/dotwriter1%40gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div></body></html>