Sunrise … sunset … swiftly flow the years – the bittersweet reflections on the passage of time in the lyrics from Fiddler on the Roof – wasn’t it yesterday when they were small? She first cast her magic upon us as a newborn carried in her mother Cathy’s arm and
Month: July 2021
Homecoming
And so I find it well to come for deeper rest to this still room, for here the habit of the soul feels less the outer world’s control; the strength of mutual purpose pleads more earnestly our common needs; and from the silence multiplied by these still forms on either
Let the more loving one be me
I was on a hermit retreat the weekend I wrote this. The questions I was asking myself at that time were: what am I doing here; what am I after? On the surface, going to the retreat was my response to an invitation by my friend Sue to spend some
Memorial – Richard E. Read (11/11/1931 – 6/25/2021)
Dick Read’s earthly journey of 89 years ended on June 25, 2021. Along that journey, he was a mentor, teacher, engineer, inventor, and technology pioneer. Most of all, he was a husband to Jeanne until her death, father to Kenneth and Laura, grandfather and great-grandfather. In his later years, his