<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-family: inherit; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">“Lessons For Living”</b><span style="font-family: inherit; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 14px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">by Alora M. Knight</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 14px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I see you looking at your children,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Wondering what their lives will be.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">If you verify some answers</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Then <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a tabindex="-1" style="color: rgb(56, 88, 152); cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;"></a></span>their future you might see.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 14px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Have you taught them to be truthful?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Have you taught them to be kind?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Have you given them the wisdom</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Needed to be color blind?</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 14px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Have you taught them to be caring</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">For those handicapped some way?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Do you read to them at bedtime?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Have you taught them how to pray?</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 14px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Have you taken time to tell them</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">What a miracle life is?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">How to be aware of nature,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Share the beauty that it gives?</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 14px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Have you taught them how important</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It is to have respect for one another?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To be grateful, not be prideful</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">When good fortune you discover?</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 14px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Do you let them know you love them</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In a way that leaves no doubt,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">So they know that is one thing</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">That they will never be without?</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 14px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">We like to think we've done our best.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Sometimes that's very true.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Can you say 'yes' to all my questions?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I will leave that up to you.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 14px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I hope your answer is affirmative,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">For then I know that you will see</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A future filled with happiness</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Like it's supposed to be.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">————————————————————</div></div></div><div><br></div><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><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></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. 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