<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">thanks for passing this along to others - everyone welcome!</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">(see below for a small taste of possibility...)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left">
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">The Center for
Environmental Sustainability Invites </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">all ages</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"> to</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">Honor the Earth
With Song & Poetry</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">Open-Mic for
Earth Day</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">Tuesday, April
17</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">6:00 – 8:00
p.m.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">Buffalo Street
Books</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">(on Buffalo
between Tioga and Cayuga)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:center"><span style><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">-</span></span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span><span style><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">bring a song
and/or poem to share, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:center"><span style><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">your own or by
someone else</span></span></span><span style><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:center"><span style><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">If you can’t
come, send your songs & poems to </span></span><a href="mailto:earthaca@gmail.com"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">earthaca@gmail.com</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">
and we’ll put them on the CES website for all to share <<a href="http://cesithaca.org">cesithaca.org</a>></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration:underline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">Just a Taste</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">There is a goddess and I know her. Her hands are not clean,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">And she is large and strong and not too young. She wears</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">A sweatshirt with a hood and beans, and sells black-purple</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">Eggplant, spinach, bright broccoli, sixty cents</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">The pound at the Greenmarket at Union Square. Her slat-side truck</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">Has Pennsylvania plates, and she says she lives near Lancaster.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">But I know the truth, because her calloused hands turn earth</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">To things good to eat, and green, and lovely.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'"> - Teresa Noelle Roberts</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration:underline">Teaching a Tone to Talk (excerpt)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">At a certain point you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: there is nothing there. There is nothing, but those things only, those created objects, discrete, growing or holding,or swaying, being rained on or raining, held, flooding or ebbing, standing, or spread. You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum, a single chorused note everywhere the same....</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'"> - Annie Dillard</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration:underline">The Sabbath of Mutual Respect (excerpt)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">In the nature year come two thanksgivings,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">the harvest of summer and the harvest of fall,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">two times when we eat and drink and remember our dead</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">under the golden basin of the moon of plenty</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">Abundance, Habondia, food for the winter, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">too much now and survival later. After</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">the plant bears, it dies into seed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">The blowing grasses nourish us, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">wheat and corn and rye, millet and rice, oat </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">and barley and buckwheat, all the serviceable</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">grasses of the pasture...</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">Fertility and choice: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">every row dug in spring means weeks</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">of labor. Plant too much and the seedlings</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">choke in weeds as the warm rains soak them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">The goddess of abundance Habondia is also</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'">the spirit of labor and choice....</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:0.25in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'comic sans ms'"> - Marge Piercy</span></p>