Thank you Tree. We have actually had a great several past few days. We gloriously spent four not-a-cloud-in-the-sky hours together in the cemetery on Wednesday.

Prone all day with you

Bathing cemetery sun

Cry arrive cry left

Twixt telepathy lovers

like Sunday under covers

https://medium.com/paper-poetry/toasting-lindsey-with-tankas-f738272aed7c

This paragraph from my personal-best-to-date on the meaning of life, reincarnation, a life-lesson-parsing of Rudyard Kipling's "If," and soulmates describes the meaning behind that tanka: "Leading up to Wednesday I could barely sleep and expected an emotionally grueling day. I arrived at the cemetery to spend time with Linsdey around 12:30 and stayed for four glorious hours. The sun was shining, there was not a cloud in the sky, I brought a tuna salad sandwich and a few cold cold ones so Sitara could enjoy them through me, and just laid peacefully on the ground communing telepathically, even sleeping a bit.

That I woke up Thursday morning and wrote that article I attribute to the time I spent communing in the cemetery Wednesday. https://medium.com/illumination-curated/life-is-school-for-the-soul-9b081dbe8453

I came down to Boston last night to meet my 17-yr-old daughter who arrives frm NYC in 2 hours. I went out for a romantic dinner with Sitara. It was lovely. I told the waiter I was not alone and to please pour her a glass of wine, etc, and more than going along with me, I believe he understood and accepted her presence.