to my great teacher ~

whose dying taught me that:

Just
to be
is a
blessing.

Just
to
live
is
holy.

~Abraham Joshua Heschel

This morning I am reading a book by Natalie Goldberg titled, Long Quiet Highway, in which she writes of the death of her beloved teacher, Dainin Katagiri Roshi, and I remember that today would have been my dad's 70th birthday. This morning in my quiet house, in my particular cosmos, the rain falling outside, this coincidence comes as a gift.