Joshua Frost

“Tis a Fearful Thing

‘Tis a fearful thing
to love what death can touch.

A fearful thing
to love, to hope, to dream, to be –

to be,
And oh, to lose.

A thing for fools, this,

And a holy thing,

a holy thing
to love.

For your life has lived in me,
your laugh once lifted me,
your word was gift to me.

To remember this brings painful joy.

‘Tis a human thing, love,
a holy thing, to love
what death has touched.”
― Judah Halevi

“The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.”
― Abigail Adams

“As children, we were given a choice between the talented but erratic hare and the plodding but steady tortoise. The lesson was supposed to be that slow and steady wins the race. But, really, did any of us ever want to be the tortoise? No, we just wanted to be a less foolish hare. We wanted to be swift as the wind and a bit more strategic—say, not taking quite so many snoozes before the finish line. After all, everyone knows you have to show up in order to win. The story of the tortoise and the hare, in trying to put forward the power of effort, gave effort a bad name. It reinforced the image that effort is for the plodders and suggested that in rare instances, when talented people dropped the ball, the plodder could sneak through.”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“Angels of highest light and love,
Angels that radiate beams of pure energy from the heavens above.

Please join us and be with us on this very night,
As the soul of our beloved joins you in flight.

We pray that you send this soul embraced in your lovely wings,
During his journey may he hear harps, and trumpets and strings.”
― Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths