Hello to you listening in Paris, France!

Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga.

As many of you know I’m engaged in a year-long course based on Stephen Levine’s well known book, A Year to Live. I think I have some 326 more days of discovering how to live this year as if it were my last. Ironically, it’s not a grim undertaking but one brimming over with life and gratitude. 

Much like Merrit Malloy shares in his poem entitled, Epitaph:  

    Epitaph by Merrit Malloy (published 1985)

   “When I die

   Give what’s left of me away

   To children

   And old men that wait to die.

   And if you need to cry,

   Cry for your brother

   Walking the street beside you.

   And when you need me,

   Put your arms

   Around anyone

   And give them

   What you need to give to me.

   I want to leave you something,

   Something better

   Than words

   Or sounds.

   Look for me

   In the people I’ve known

   Or loved,

   And if you cannot give me away,

   At least let me live on in your eyes

   And not your mind.

   You can Love me most

   By letting

   Hands touch hands,

   By letting bodies touch bodies,

   And by letting go

   Of children

   That need to be free.

   Love doesn’t die,

   People do.

   So, when all that’s left of me

   Is Love,

   Give me away.”

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Music: Mer’s Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron Music

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