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I've added this "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. Periodically, on this page, I will add words of wisdom from various sources suitable for reflection in our respective 11th hours of life. The most recent addition will be added at the bottom of the list.
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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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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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Truth?
The true memories
lie on the aging pages
of his diaries.
D Kubiatowicz (6,6,2022)
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"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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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)
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"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)
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Prayer
My Lord God,
I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
nor do I really know myself,
and the fact that I think I am following your will
does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you
does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road,
though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore will I trust you always though
I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me,
and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
Thomas Merton-Trappist Monk (1915-1968)
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Covid-19 in Retrospect
Coronavirus.
not earthquake nor fire nor flood
nor global warming
nor nuclear blast
nor widespread pollution. Just
Coronavirus!
Dave Kubiatowicz 3-13.2020
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Memories
Once, when no sleep came
I let my mind wander through
my best memories.
Dave Kubiatowicz 6-30-2025
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"Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before."
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
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