EVERYBODY LOVED RAYMOND

James Raymond Dicken
1937 - 2006

I will not die an unlived life.

I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire.

I choose to inhabit my days,

to allow my living to open me,

to make me less afraid,

more accessible,

To loosen my heart

Until it becomes

a wing,a torch, a promise.

I choose to risk my significance;

To live so that which came to me as seed

goes to the next as blossom

and that which came to me as blossom,

goes on as fruit. -Dawna Markova

I love you, Dad