The Poem

So one part of today's lesson is "Thank God for friends".

Another part is: you must ask for what you really want (Rumi).

And the last part is: Bill is an angel.

Here's the poem I wanted to post with yesterday's blog entry.

Recognitions by Irving Feldman

Not the God, though it might have been

savoring some notion of me

and exciting the cloud where he was hidden

with impetuous thunderstrokes of summoning

-it was merely you who recognized me,

speaking my name in such a tone

I knew you had been thinking it

a long, long time, and now revealed yourself

in this way. Because of this, suddenly who

I was was precious to me.

Now I can never lose it again....