<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Reprise: How Then Shall We LIve? (in such a time as this . . .)</font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Ellie </font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2">elliestock@aol.com </font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> <span><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">HOW THEN SHALL WE LIVE?</span></i></b></span> <br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">What do we call what calls from the deep,</span></i></b></span><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">that pulses through stars and quickens heart’s beep,</span></i></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">that surges through waves and cleanses with fire,</span></i></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">emerges from dust and breathes soul’s desire?</span></i></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">What do we name what mocks human pride,</span></i></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">that bends the Tree of Life, sustaining being’s tide?</span></i></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><br></span></i></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">How do we greet what calls to our deep,</span></i></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">that lasers vulnerabilities and loves us from fear’s sleep,</span></i></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">that mourns lost illusions and leaves us defenseless,</span></i></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">transforms the present moment and awakens all senses?</span></i></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">How do we embrace what eternalizes finitude,</span></i></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">that opens wide portals, flooding tears of gratitude?</span></i></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><br></span></i></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">How do we know what calls us to decide,</span></i></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">that gives no guarantee and provides no place to hide,</span></i></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">t</span></i></b><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">hat beckons all our care and trumps the doubt within,</span></i></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">reckons despair and hope and connects all creature kin?</span></i></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">How do we abide in what struggles to create,</span></i></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">that explodes time and space, freeing partners with Earth’s fate?</span></i></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><br></span></i></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">How then shall we live what chisels passion’s edge,</span></i></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">that re-sculpts past’s confoundings and empowers future’s wedge,</span></i></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">that compels us far beyond mind’s strength or comfort zone,</span></i></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">propels trusting steps into great work’s bidding unknown?</span></i></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">How shall we now journey in vast community</span></i></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">with that which journeys through us profoundly and boundlessly?</span></i></b><b style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> </span></i></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> </span></i></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> ~ ejhs</span></i></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>