<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(60, 96, 91);">The Instinct Of Hope </span></b><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(60, 96, 91);"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">by John Clare<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Is there another world for this frail dust<br>To warm with life and be itself again?<br>Something about me daily speaks there must,<br>And why should instinct nourish hopes in vain?<br>'Tis nature's prophesy that such will be,<br>And everything seems struggling to explain<br>The close sealed volume of its mystery.<br>Time wandering onward keeps its usual pace<br>As seeming anxious of eternity,<br>To meet that calm and find a resting place.<br>E'en the small violet feels a future power<br>And waits each year renewing blooms to bring,<br>And surely man is no inferior flower<br>To die unworthy of a second spring?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br></div>—————————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/">http://www.moscowcares.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>