Thanks, Dan'l.  I'll always remember ANY discussion with your Dad, since I realized that his wholesome 
capacity for carefully listening to what [I] had to say was '0'-he wasn't very good at not showing his 
impatience, and after a while it was funny-his intense seriousness-about what he was about to completely 
negate-what he had not heard you [I] say. 

Strong opinions?  Belief in his 'right view'? Gentle, sharing of the room's oxygen? 
 All of those things!  It was probably good that he didn't elect to be a GP, or a small town 'family doctor.'  
Would'nt hurt a fruit fly, if he could help it.  He was sui generis!

And now for something completely different- 

In Memoria
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Up-Falling Rain

We who know
and have known
those feelings made heavy
by full hearts filling lungs,
lungs sighing open-mouthed
for breath,
We who have known
have known the pain of passing-
of souls nearer as no other,
of none ever closer to our blood-
reach across the mere illusion
of time and space separating friends
friends who carry each other's heart
within their own,
and wet their brimming sorrow
with our own.

   -EAGLE AIR
   
          -

New Spring: 2009
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Forever

Alas.  Nothing lasts 'forever'
but the loving of someone.  
The only time we have
is 'forever.'
 
'Forever' must surely be
moment-by-moment
-simply trying
to get to being alive.

-EAGLE AIR                                             
      Brookline

Be well, DH-and our love to the rest of your clan!  H/E & R.