<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">like Neruda</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(12, 11, 12); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(12, 11, 12);" class="">grief does not just go away even though </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(12, 11, 12);" class="">some do not show evidence of it, which</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(12, 11, 12);" class="">does not mean it is not present</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(12, 11, 12);" class="">does not mean one did not love enough</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(12, 11, 12);" class="">does not mean this sudden sense of</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(12, 11, 12);" class="">abandonment has anything to do</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(12, 11, 12);" class="">with the length of loss </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(12, 11, 12);" class="">or its immediacy</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(12, 11, 12); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(12, 11, 12);" class="">just beneath the edge of awakening </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(12, 11, 12);" class="">one is subject to those moments </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(12, 11, 12);" class="">held so tightly that like Neruda we sing</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(12, 11, 12);" class="">the ancient rites of our <span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">soul-essence</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(12, 11, 12);" class="">and briefly experience our awareness </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(12, 11, 12);" class="">of being human</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 19px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- fran claggett-holland</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 19px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 19px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri; min-height: 19px;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>