Thank you both for the wisdom you have given, the concern you have shown and the love you have shared. Your philosophy is deeply rooted in truth, honor and a life lived with purpose. Thank you for sharing your family with me and their thoughts expressed below.
You have touched my heart and my soul... I have grown.
I am grateful God has blessed me with you both in my life.
I am honored to count you as true friends.
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STONE
Reading, sleeping, talking and thinking lots- - -
About how short life is regardless of how you cut it,
Health issues aside. There are a few decades we have
which just swim by in the blind precession of days
what matters? From where I am, I see several
really simple and important things:
Shaping your stone well; that's your part in civilization
Loving - - other humans matters most
Taking the next step; it's always hard
Shaping your stone means quietly doing your job,
As well as you can. Your identity will soon be lost
To history but your stone, if well shaped and polished
Will fit into the structure we call civilization and hold its
Weight, as time sweeps past us and others build upon us.
History is full of greed, horror and the worst in mankind
But humanness is built of well shaped loving times.
What we do matters and if there is beauty in the world it is
Because so many quiet souls have shaped their stones well
And the cathedral of life is beautiful after all.
Loving matters most - - friendships are what
Make living good and full or empty. Giving and
Being real, the good and bad, but sharing it all in
Loving acceptance and without judgment. We are
So similar under the skin and we need each other.
Taking the next step, is about the hard part of life.
It's about courage and it does mean trying to
Do what's next, even though it's painful. It also
Means taking the next step, not the next ten at once,
But the important (essential) thing is to keep moving,
Even if however slowly it seems.
What death and life mean are beyond
Knowing for now. I don't believe we blink
Out like a light but that could be egotism or
False hope. It doesn't matter for now; for now
There is my stone to chip and polish,
Souls to love and be truly myself with and
Always the next awkward step to take.
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