This was a favourite poem of Margaret which she found in American book of poetry which was sent to me but I never read. Margaret was an avid reader when she had the time. The Foot Path to Peace To be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars: to be satisfied with your possessions but not contented with yourself until you have made the best of them: to despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness: and to fear nothing but cowardice; to be governed by your admirations rather than by your disgusts: to covet nothing that is your neighbours except his kindness and with spirit of heart and gentleness of manners: to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends, and every day of Christ: and to spend as much time as you can, with body and with spirit, in God’s out-of-doors …….these are the little guidepost on the footpath to peace. Henry van Dyke (1852 ~1933)

I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? Life means all that it ever meant, it is the same as it ever was.