"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

  Likely this quote about love was originally about romantic love. However, it also applies in the context of the death of a loved one. Never have I regretted the investment in Joanne and our relationship. The regret is that death intervened.
   Once again poetry says it best.

'Tis a Fearful Thing

Tis a fearful thing
to love what death can touch.

A fearful thing
to love, to hope, to dream, to be –

to be,
And oh, to lose.

A thing for fools, this,

And a holy thing, a holy thing
to love.

For your life has lived in me,
your laugh once lifted me,
your word was gift to me.

To remember this brings painful joy.

‘Tis a human thing, love,
a holy thing, to love
what death has touched.”

Yehudah Halevi (c.1075–1141)


       Easter blessings to you. In the days ahead may the resurrection be in your experience.

Takk for alt,

Al