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Walking Toward Morning
In a cemetery once, an old one in New England, I found a strangely soothing epitaph. The name of the deceased and her dates had been scoured away by wind and rain, but there was a carving of a tree with roots and branches (a classic nineteenth-century motif) and among them the words, She attended well and faithfully to a few worthy things. At first this seemed to me a little meager, a little stingy on the part of her survivors, but I wrote it down and have thought about it since, and now I cant imagine a more proud or satisfying legacy. Every day I stand in danger of being struck by lightning and having the obituary in the local paper say, for all the world to see, She attended frantically and ineffectually to a great many unimportant, meaningless details.
How do you want your obituary to read?
- from "Set in Stone"
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"Walking Toward Morning affirms my sense of being present to life. Victoria Safford writes with great joy and attiveness. These meditations are simply wonderful. I will return to them again and again."
- Rev. Keith Kron
VICTORIA SAFFORD is currently serving as minister of White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She holds a degree from Yale Divinity School.
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