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Happy Thanksgiving all!

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Poem of the Week by Louise Gluck

time moves so fast

Labor Day 

It’s a year exactly since my father died.
Last year was hot.
At the funeral, people talked about the weather.
How hot it was for September. How unseasonable.

This year, it’s cold.
There’s just us now, the immediate family.
In the flower beds, shreds of bronze, of copper.

Out front, my sister’s daughter rides her bicycle
the way she did last year,
up and down the sidewalk. What she wants is
to make time pass.

While to the rest of us
a whole lifetime is nothing.
One day, you’re a blond boy with a tooth missing;
the next, an old man gasping for air.
It comes to nothing, really, hardly
a moment on earth.
Not a sentence, but a breath, a caesura.

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

This was a rapid sketch of MLK I made back in 2012. I believe I may have later used it in a song video I created called "It Takes One Drop". 

I have included the song here as a podcast and also provided the video here for your viewing pleasure: 

It Takes One Drop

"Ring out the old, ring in the new, 
Ring, happy bells, across the snow: 
The year is going, let him go; 
Ring out the false, ring in the true."

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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It is with a full embrace of all that you are, all that you might be feeling, and all of your seemingly ordinary experiences that I send you Thanksgiving love and gratitude for your existence. May you feel the extraordinariness of all that you are, all that surrounds you, and all that we are together. 

Happy Thanksgiving 

Dave