 I decided today looking for a journal entry with today's date is too hard and has been stopping me from posting to this page. The journals are stacked in year order, at the moment, on a bookshelf in my green house study. I just grabbed one this morning and I'm so glad. 2001-2002 I was fondly reminded of a wonderful couple that I knew, John & Philomene, they also lived in the Ellis Building (15 Paloma Ave.) in Venice. I met them in the elevator and studied with John Thomas for a bit before he was too ill to continue. I found this entry in my journal from 2002. The poem was written in memoriam, he died March 29 (Good Friday) 2002. You can find out more about him online. John Thomas will I ever know again the wonder staggering in unsteady confidence and kindness gushing sweet reserved questions so deep they hung unanswered depth and dedication - sweetness and light to wander among words, ideas, concepts to feel the passion and see with crystal clarity a countryside never visited commanding and gentle knowledge John Thomas appeared to me the supreme listener listening in silence to things said and those left unsaid interpreting - not judging sensing struggle and pain treading lightly wandering among land mines with no mind tell me what it felt like, sister to be loved to experience that "love eternal" so lucky and unfortunate the paradox of being to know and not know all at once the physicists be damned so it is daily Thanks to John Thomas for an awakening, for a breath of sweet magnolias in Spring.
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