Devastation

The extremes of devastation, isolation, rejection that geniuses of old age counteract with smiles and good cheer could well be learned, but in the temperament of the clandestine anyway, behind the scenes, who did all the good under cover, naturally get blamed for it all, for tempered by continual TIAs and pieces of plaque breaking off to cloud the vision and make blind, while others interrupt the motor memory so that the knees forget to walk, it is all in the days that add up to psychological mishaps too, even more, so that what in one is Parkinson's and in another Alzheimers, is in this case, still functioning in the mind while the emotional life shrives. 

But still alive when others notably died by80. Still alive to bear the slings and arrows. Still alive to hear and read Habakkuk two and three. what kind of life is it that has most in common with the minor prophets? Not to complain, but to feel, I will extol your Name O Lord at all times, your praise shall continually be in my mouth with the mockingbird and the doves and love birds all over the sunflowers and the chow chow that keeps an eye. What they all want I got, still have, entrance to the heavenlies, the embrace, wit, and medicine of Shekinah in my bed and kitchen and yard David would wished, and ten thousand manuscripts, with more need to buy bar codes. This human satellite that  felt the rush of so many fine comet wonders  gone, never to return - where are the new when you have lost the sons you so love, daughter long before, yet still seek their good? The purpose here is to make a catalogue.

Arthur Glasser, Alex Dunlap, Ken Morrison, Henry Burlage, John Cullen, Ricardo Foulkes, Robert Williams,

 for Grandma Ruth and Aunt Libby