December, 2001, a Holiday Wish for My Loved Ones

If I Could Give You Anything...

...I'd give you a Nevada sunrise

and the breathtaking palate of golden-pink and violet

that wrap the mountains like a waking dream

...I'd give you the happiest moment of your life

to live over again for a few minutes, and the wisdom

to savor it and hold it in your heart

...I'd give you the last goodbye

the last "I Love You" that you never got to say

to someone you lost

...I'd give you moonlight rainbows

and impossible colors...

magic as can be on the midnight snow

...I'd give you contentment

for without it, we ache for what we cannot even identify

...I'd give you the certain knowledge

that your life has meaning and that you have touched others

...I'd give you back

the love and strength you've given me.

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As I watch money and material possessions come and go,

and events unfold which I'm helpless to change...

As I mark time and come to understand

we don't all keep time together...

...and won't always be together

...I find that the things I want to give you--the things I'd give you if I could--are in my heart and mind.

Immortality is not just the random continuance of genes...

immortality lies in the lives and the hearts whom you've touched deeply.

In that, my friends, you are all immortal.