There's Always Something...

"THE LAST THING"

"The Last Thing" 

by

Monk Gibbon

Who'd be afraid of death?

I think only fools are.

For it is not

as though this thing were given to one man only,

but all receive it.

The journey that my friend makes,

I can make also.

If I know nothing else,

I know this,

I go where he is.

O Fools, shrinking from this little door,

through which so many kind and lovely souls have passed before you,

will you hang back?

Harder in your case than another?

Not so.

And too much silence?

Has there not been enough stir here?

Go bravely,

for where so much greatness and gentleness

have been already,

you should be glad to follow.

(Discovered in Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir by Stanley Hauerwas, a fine book if there ever was one.)

Hallelujah

Don't have the faintest idea why k.d. lang is on the short list of celebrities I adore - but there you are. For your weekend contemplation and enjoyment.  Remember the winter Olympics? That was k.d.