Jean, thank you for this introduction. I read her Poems for Arnold and they are beautiful, lovely and heart-wrenching at the same time, like life.
 

At first I had a rush of -- "oh, that's so true!" -- and then I realized, to my chagrin, that actually -- it's been just as true of me at every phase of my life. Walking sanely is a project I've never achieved :-)
 

Oh I so feel how true that is, and also dale, at every stage.

thank you Jean for another introduction to a wonderful poet.
 

I walked so close to the edge for so many years, and through so many phases, that if I am insane noew, it is so much less it feels just fine thankyouverymuch.
 

If that miraculous fruit is going to get rid of the hot flashes, I'm all for it. :)
 

Karen, time does that, thank god, no miracles required - I think mine have stopped, touch wood :-)