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October 2009 
Who do you want to be when you grow up?
Posted on May 13th, 2009
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jagadish
jagadish
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for May 13, 2009:
.......N O T H I N G !!..i want to quietly fade into oblivion....
....i am turning 61 on June 16th & my perpetual state of mind is that of utmost satisfaction and to put it in the words of Salvador Sali :
" There are some days when i think i'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction !! "...
....may be this why they say ' satisfaction is death !!
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Jagadish,
I am not yet privileged to acknowledge as many years as you but your post resonates with me and reminds me of my favorite poem from many my maternal grandmother, now passed away from this life, left to me -
If death be half as sweet as life, I will not fear.
I'll shed no tear, nor will I ask my friends to weep;
But quietly go like melting snow upon a
mountain's steep gray height,
Or wafted gently on a breeze.
I'll drift away among the trees,
Like lover's laughter echoing down a lane.
Or I will follow willingly the soft spring
rain around the river bend.
I'll go as swiftly as robins at the summer's end.
If death be only half as sweet as life,
I will not fear to go, I love life so.
(Let There Be Light by Bernice S Dittmer, from the Rev BMG William's scrapbook)
Deb
jagadish,
peace to you! like Deb, I think of poems that point to the fulfilment a life well lived holds in the latter years.
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Jon.
Jon !!
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-jagadish