"Between My Love And You" acrylic on paper, 2012

To all the young ones just starting their venture this summer, to whom I have had the pleasure of giving my music and witnessing their love,
to my dear loving family, near and far
to friends having departed this bodily presence, but here, forever in the air and the sky, the wisp of wind, the movement of a child..my heart and spirit,
to those unknown to me, I want to know you,
your love is the same as mine

we all come in as naked little babes, and we all leave with one last breath
needing someone, somewhere who cares, even just alittle.
Thank you all laborers, of which I am one,
working the shifts and the factories, the timeclocks, and the offices, the managers and thinkers, the machinists and the farmers, the tenders and dreamers, singers and writers, the visionaries.
We are all of us, just a moment, a breadth away from one another's experience...look into my eyes.

from Kate Wolf:

Kind friends all gather round
There's something I would say
What brings us together here
Has blessed us all today
Love has made a circle
That holds us all inside
Where strangers are as family
And loneliness can't hide

You must give yourself to love
If love is what you're after
Open up your heart to
Tears and laughter
Give yourself to love
Give yourself to love.