Blue Book 2014

More Than the Eye Can SeeEvery rock and every stoneEvery tree and every limbEvery bloom and blossomEvery little field mouseAnd great hippopotamusEvery little precious childBefore and after being bornAnd every boy and girlEvery man and woman grownEvery human beingIn fine, all that has beenIs or will be: Far more than you Than I can see2014 November 25Always We prefer to start things at the beginning, finish them at the end. Nothing, or almost, seems to observe that simple canon. I just found out that a fellow student, one from Massachusetts, died this October; we trekked around Europe together, student-style, in the 50's. We had lost contact many years ago. But I imagine that when he died he was in the middle of something. An exciting new project. The anticipation of a visit from his son. A TV show. Reading a letter. Remembering. Or maybe it was just the breath he was taking in, letting out. We never seem ready; always in the middle of something2014 December 1