Feast on your life

Hello friends, thanks so much for coming over to the liver blog.

I made it to LWR headquarters!! 85 degrees here today. Here are some of my awesome colleagues, the impromptu welcome committee, if you will. ;-) The spirit of the office is as true and beautiful as the vision of the organization. Dignity and justice for everyone in every generation. R to L: me, Emily, Phil, Vicky, Fran, Becky. I'm told that our India staff is here too this week, so I'm hoping they'll let me blog them. Stay tuned. ;-)

Later, this is what I found when I opened up my camera. A still life of home, presumably with Aidan as photographer. Speaking of home, here's the link to the blog by Amanda and her friends. Hi sweeties!!! Mama misses you!!! x0x0x0x0 (as if they are even close to ever reading this)

On a sad note from home, today we are saying good bye to Cookie, my parent's beloved Boston Bull Terrier. She lived a good long full life in Dexter, Minnesota, with occassional cross country trips with my Dad. Here's a picture of her in her favorite position, sleeping under the covers. Every night she would tuck herself into bed, digging herself under the covers and resting her head on the pillow, as though she was human. Bob and I remember, though, the Cookie that was a bullet. All muscle, bursting out of the back door and bounding off the deck seemingly airborne for 10 feet before hitting the ground running. Do dogs go to heaven? I think so.

Anyway, just thought this poem would be a nice thought to close on tonight. Goodnight everyone! :-) Love, T

Love after Love

The time will come

when, with elation,

you will greet yourself arriving

at your own door, in your own mirror,

and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat.

You will love again the stranger who was your self.

Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart

to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored

for another, who knows you by heart.

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes,

peel your own image from the mirror.

Sit. Feast on your life.

~ Derek Walcott ~
courtesy of our LWR Virtual U speaker from last week, the amazing John Nunes.

P.S. Podcast find for today: Mysterious Universe.