Thanks for coming, we hold you in our hearts forever
James Bertolino's blessing, read by Eryn Grill
"May your love be firm,
and may your dream of life together be a river between two shores—by day bathed in sunlight, and by night illuminated from within. May the heron
carry news of you to the heavens, and the salmon bring the sea's blue grace. May your twin thoughts spiral upward
like leafy vines, like fiddle strings in the wind, and be as noble as the Douglas fir. May you never find yourselves back to back
without love pulling you around
into each other's arms."
Rumi, read by Tyana Maddock
“Those who don’t feel this Love
pulling them like a river,
those who don’t drink dawn
like a cup of spring water
or take in sunset like supper,
those who don’t want to change,
let them sleep.
This Love is beyond the study of theology,
that old trickery and hypocrisy.
If you want to improve your mind that way,
sleep on.
I’ve given up on my brain.
I’ve torn the cloth to shreds
and thrown it away.
If you’re not completely naked,
wrap your beautiful robe of words
around you,
and sleep.”
"Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can."
-Steven Chu and Charles H. Townes (2003). Biographical Memoirs V.83. National Academies Press. p. 201. ISBN 0-309-08699-X.
-Steven Chu and Charles H. Townes (2003). Biographical Memoirs V.83. National Academies Press. p. 201. ISBN 0-309-08699-X.