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I rarely post updates here, but feel compelled to share this poem in honor of a dear friend who recently passed without truly knowing how many lives he touched. For Greg Herman and everyone who loves him. Thank you for breaking my heart open. Forgive me for being bold. Lead Here is a story to break your heart. Are you willing? This winter the loons came to our harbor and died, one by one, of nothing we could see. A friend told me of one on the shore that lifted its head and opened the elegant beak and cried out in the long, sweet savoring of its life which, if you have heard it, you know is a sacred thing, and for which, if you have not heard it, you had better hurry to where they still sing. And, believe me, tell no one just where that is. The next morning this loon, speckled and iridescent and with a plan to fly home to some hidden lake, was dead on the shore. I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world. ~ Mary Oliver ~
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 22:41:23 +0000

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