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…  But we learned more about life than most.  I don’t mean we suffered more, only earlier.  We finished lessons that some might never learn, lessons that for many don’t start until adulthood.  We knew the end in every beginning, the pain in every joy, the darkness created by every light, and we recognized our own soul in every creature we ever met?from insects to humans, and even including monsters.  We are atuned to agony wherever it occurs and our reflex is to share the sufferrer’s burden without hesitation.  We have cast temple-bulging screams into the night demanding a loud and clear Spiritvoice to sustain our hope, forgetting in our panic that it speaks only in whispers, and it has never failed.  <\/div>\n

And miles to go before I sleep…  <\/p>\n

56.  chiphi2x, aka Mike M., a web designer who lit a fire here without ever coming any closer (physically) than a thousand miles; for being frantic, restless, sometimes manic, sometimes depressed, and always intense, for struggling and crying, for soaring and shining, for letting me read into him, for inspiring a piece of my best writing<\/a>, and finally, for quite unexpectedly responding<\/a> to it.  <\/p>\n

57.  Mentioned in the same old journal entry<\/a> as chiphi, JP (short for John Paul), a college student who was beautiful, and interested in being my friend; for offering a lot more than I dared accept, and for giving me the time of day, which even then, long ago, was unbelievably late.  <\/p>\n

58.  Nelson Mandela; for enduring, for distilling through decades of suffering a faith priceless to the world, and for being free<\/a>.  <\/p>\n

59.  Cat Stevens; for every whisper he has ever recorded, for his gentle heart, and for treading lightly on this life.  <\/p>\n

60.  Jim Lonborg, the Red Sox pitcher with the spit stain on his shoulder; for carrying us on a dream like none we have ever dreamt, a season of winning so precious that one might feel more fond of it than victory.  <\/p>\n

I know I promised.  I’m sorry.  There’s only forty places left in the list, and I have at least 400 whom I love from which I must whiddle away 9 out of ten.  Takes time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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