Surrounded by teachers
I’m surrounded by teachers — friends, others who have undergone treatment for cancer, and magical soul teachers like Bengali poet Rabindrinath Tagore. My good friend Phyllis Florin took this photograph of Mamie and I cheerfully paddling a two-person inflatable kayak into a rapid on the Rogue river some years ago. Phyllis has a wonderful talent for enhancing photos into inspirational objects. If the type isn’t clear to you, the quote from Tagore reads:
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.
