At 75. I chose a couple of passages to read before we cut the chocolate birthday cake Marilyn baked.
Remembering my father
If all a man does is to watch from the shore,
Then he doesn't have to worry about the current.
But if affection has put us into the stream,
Then we have to agree to where the water goes.
Hope and history
from The Cure at Troy
History says, Don't hope
On this side of the grave,
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme.