Legacy
If your name is to live at all, it is so much more
to have it live in people's hearts
than only in their brains.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
to have it live in people's hearts
than only in their brains.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
If This Is Not A Place. . .
If this is not a place where tears are understood, Then where shall I go to cry? And if this is not a place where my spirit can take wings, Then where shall I go to fly? I don't need another place for trying to impress you With just how good and virtuous I am. I don't need another place for always being on top of things; Everybody knows that it's a sham. I don't need another place for always wearing smiles, Even when it's not the way I feel. I don't need another place to mouth the same old platitudes; Everybody knows that it's not real. So if this is not a place where my questions can be asked, Then where shall I go to seek? And if this is not a place where my heart cry can be heard, Where, tell me where, shall I go to speak? So if this is not a place where tears are understood, Where shall I go, where shall I go to fly? -- Ken Medema
Hey Mark,
ReplyDeleteHope your holidays were, and are, great! This is my last blog response for Flame class.
Holmes had it right. I think of names like Lincoln, Kennedy, and Reagan, proud to be an American - a heart thing. Then names like Graham, Sunday, Wesley, Edwards, and so on.. . .here again, a heart thing. And on an entirely personal side, names like Coyte York, Ransom McAlpine, Roy S. Nicholson, and Mark Wilson! Gentlemen who have influenced my life and still are. . . .they have a place in my heart!!