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In No Way I am of the family of the universe, and with all of us together I do not fear being alone; I can reach out and touch a rock or a hand or dip my feet in water. Alwaysthere is some body close by, and when I speak I am answered by a plane's roar or the bird's whistling or the voicesof others in conversation far apart from me. When I lie down to sleep, I am in the company of the dark and the stars. Breathe to me, sheep in the meadow. Sun and moon, my father and my father's brother, kiss me on the brow with your light. My sister, earth, holds me up to be kissed. Sun and moon, I smile at you both and spread my arms in affection and lay myself down at full length for the earth to know I love it too and am never to be separated from it. In no way shall death part us. Tomorrow I exist without the dignity of stone that does not bother that itexists, and so let me place my hand upon an open flame and cry out my pain because I exist. What other is there, without an open hand into which the apple falls at end of autumn or that cups the rain of a summer sky or opens to the sun or moon? I am the door to tomorrow. In the Garden And now I wish to pray and perform a ritual of my devotion to the sun. I will bow and sing beneath my breath, then perform the dance of farewell and my confidence in the sun's return. 121 ...

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