This coming Saturday, August 23, is the three year Anniversary of YES Gallery. I was realizing as I thought about the date and the year, it is twenty years since I went through a very difficult time in my business that started because of a partnership I'd begun in 2003 to create an art and community center, in many ways the way that YES Gallery is today. All those long years and so many adventures with Jesus, so many twists and turns and miraculous appearances and happenings that it could be a Charles Dickens novel. I do want to write about it, and have wanted to, and I've started sometimes, but somehow the fact that each moment is unfolding in so many different faceted ways makes it difficult for me to just sit down and write because I'm living it.
A few months ago I wrote a poem that came to me when I was on my way home from a ver exciting evening during Design Week in Manhattan. I was thinking about a friend of mine who was so dear, someone who I wished was still around for me to share time with. He's in Heaven now, and I'm sure very happy there, but though I am happy that he's happy, and I also know his spirit is still here with me, there is a part of me that misses the physical him so much. We had so many raucously wonderful times together, and some very tender ones too. We loved each other in the way that only very special once in a blue moon friendships can be.
I'll share the poem here, and will be sharing more about the three year Anniversary when I've experienced it, but for now here is the poem that the title of the Anniversary is from:
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