Let us talk of those no longer with us.
Let us honor their lives with our words.
Let us speak mostly of the good in them.
Let us not, however, pretend they were not flawed.
Let us re call them, summon them again from
the times they spent touching our lives
with theirs, helping us to cry or laugh, teaching
us, often unaware that they were teachers.
Let us re member them, rejoin them
to our company, with stories of what they
said and did, with special attention given
to how they said it, how they did it.
Let us re instate them, claim for them
their rightful place in our past, but also
in our present. We are what they helped
shape us into. They live on in us.
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