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This "11th Hour Musings" page allows (only) classmates from the Rochester Lourdes High class of 1960 (or family member) to verbalize what's on your mind in a pithy ("concise and meaningful") manner to be published on this page. I suppose this could be an experience, advice, warning, poem, prayer etc. Subject matter MUST be non-political and suitable for publication on our Catholic HS Blog. Anything quoted should be cited so I can include the author's name. For now publication frequency will be 1 submission per person per month. I will include your name in the submissions. Please email your submissions to:
(Note: Manually put the email address above into your "To:" email address bar, Thanks)
I've added the "11th Hour Musings" page to the the LHS60 Blog because going forward in lieu of any more reunions or formal celebrations, the "Recent News" page and "Deceased Classmates" page will mostly be dire. So please get your submissions in before the clock strikes midnight!
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[1] Submitted by Dave Kubiatowicz, 9.10.23
Late Fragment
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
"I did."
And what did you want?
"To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth."
"I did."
And what did you want?
"To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth."
Raymond Carver [1938-1988]
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[2] Submitted by Dave Kubiatowicz, 10.3.2023
Prayer
Someone I loved once gave me
A box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
That this, too, was a gift.
Mary Oliver (1935-2019)
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[3] Submitted by Dave Kubiatowicz 11.25.2023
Truth?
The true memories
lie on the aging pages
of his diaries.
D Kubiatowicz (6,6,2022)
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[4] Submitted by Dave Kubiatowicz 05.06.24
"My life will make a statement. When I am on my deathbed, I will look back and my actions will say: if only he hadn't rushed, or they will say he loved what he did, or they will say he traded his talent for money. When that moment comes, I hope I will have given myself the finest I was capable of. I hope that what I do will make a bed on which I can take my rest"
"I am old enough. I have been given the lessons. More than needed. More than I have ever used. The time has come for me to put an end to this busy stocking of supplies. I don't require one thing beyond my own counsel. Why should I keep filling myself with new reminders and techniques. It's nothing other than procrastination. I can trust myself. I know what to do."
Hugh Prather in "Notes on Love and Courage" (© 1977, Doubleday, Garden City, NY)
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[5] Submitted by Dave Kubiatowicz 8-17-24
Suscipe
Take Lord and receive all my liberty,
my memory, my understanding
and my entire will.
All I have and call my own
you have given all to me.
To you Lord, I return it.
Everything is yours; do with it what you will.
Give me only your love and your grace
that is enough for me.
St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
[6] Submitted by Dave Kubiatowicz 3.13.25
"You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ (1881-1955)
[7] Waiting for the Next Contributer!
