Earnest compassion streams effortlessly tonight ...

in response to your loss, Andrea & David & Families;

& to the Penn family,

& to our friends & loved ones

~~ their losses that cut closer to home.

From my family to yours:  The wish

of Perseverance & Hope is our...

most kindred benevolent offering.

Sometimes it feels like we’re all outside a fence anymore....

A FENCE

By Carl Sandburg

Now the stone house on the lake front is finished and the

     workmen are beginning the fence.

The palings are made of iron bars with steel points that

     can stab the life out of any man who falls on them.

As a fence, it is a masterpiece, and will shut out the rabble

     and all vagabonds and hungry men and all wandering

     children looking for a place to play.

Passing through the bars and over the steel points will go

     nothing except Death and the Rain and To-morrow.

~~

, ...Peacequake