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Terrance Lane Millet's avatar

Love this. Thanks.

Chris Schnepf's avatar

Delighftul!

Norris Barnes Aka Pooh's avatar

Brothers indeed. Somewhere, back there, the RNA connected to your DNA.

As you echoed to me, “there are still good people on this earth”.

I am. You are. He is.

Kat Wilder's avatar

So much here, a book of two lives and brothers and daughters in a single poem. Love!

Clifford Miller's avatar

true friendships that are beyond description are some of the most cherished elements in human existence

Ed S.'s avatar

It's always a privilege to witness a connection this personal in prose. Thank you for sharing it with us.

James Griffith's avatar

I can hear the typewriter in every word.

Darrell Koerner's avatar

Eloquently remarkable and piercing as hell.

Rod Foster's avatar

i love these Sunday shares. such a beautiful letter and such tenderness in friendships!!

lou J's avatar

Damn. Thanks for sharing. I was just mourning my departure from Shelburne Falls a few days ago, so I was hooked before the letter even started. And then it took me down many beautiful rivers.

Nicholas Triolo's avatar

Love this.

Jethro J Felton III's avatar

Man, powerful. Two of my greatest mentors are much younger than me and this brings them to mind. Thanks for sharing, DJD…

Alan Claassen's avatar

In October, my wife and I will be walking our daughter down the hillside overlooking Mono Lake on the Eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Loved the fatherly reflection.

Diane's avatar

What a letter!

Keith W Pearson's avatar

not a surprise what a powerful correspondent he is given the wonderfully profound music he makes and performs. i'd say you are both blessed by your friendship.