To my children, Allison & Robert:
I am forever grateful to their wondrous poets and poets and poems such as this:
We have not come here to take prisoners,
but to surrender ever more deeply to freedom and joy…
Run my dear,
from anything
that may not strengthen
Your precious budding wings…
For we have not come here to take prisoners
Or to confine our wondrous spirits
But to experience ever and ever more deeply
Our divine courage, freedom, and Light!
– Sufi poet, Hafiz
