This Spring and early Summer, I’ve been struck by the richness of community, the simplicity. With heartfelt gratitude for family and friends…

let us come together

let us come together here

on the rocky spine of this world

let us suspend all judgment

of ourselves and of those

we would hold as friends

let us watch the shadows

of the clouds as they race

across this darkening land

let us hold this hour

in the companionable silence

of those collected here

let us ask for nothing more

than the warmth of these hands

than this breath

than the tender, fragile heart of this day

let us cherish one another

and in this,

let us be glad

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