With love then, now, and always...

 On what would have been our 29th year of marriage...

"The Power Of Love,"

Marcia Ball

Our "Empty Garden"

“We have to say it:

remember, this is just a football game,

no matter who wins or loses...,"

Howard Cosell, December 8, 1980.

An unlikely father figure-

The messenger of a

Heart-breaking loss 
Felt 'round the world.
Just moments before,
Life was as it had

Always been,

Then there was nothing
But stunned silence-

One of our own,

Gone.

In a matter of seconds
Outside the Dakota in NYC,
On just an ordinary Monday,
Our innocence forever 

Interrupted.

"...Oh and I've been calling

oh hey hey Johnny

Can't you come out to play"-

Elton John, "Empty Garden."

Leveling Up

Truth is

No one owes me

A damn thing.

Those present

Want to be

Without obligation

Or expectation

Not from apathy

But from empathy-

Letting people "off the hook"

For being who they are

Rather than how

We want them

To be.

No longer with a

Sense of entitlement,

We're "Even Steven"-

Leveled-up

To what we never owed

Then, Now, and Forever...

Hafiz

Deliverance

Infinite be our

Human Failings,

Yet we must find

The courage to Trust.

For without Faith,

We are Nothing.