Dear Lynne,

In our relatively short lifetimes the goal of fulfilling a mission, or creating an essence of a life eludes, or is minimized by most of us. Some of us start down that ethereal path only to be distracted, diverted or coopted by the cultural, social, economic and or political forces which dominate life and existence in our materialistic world.

Some, very few, amongst us are the true treasures of our mortal experience.

YOU, Lynne Stuart, are in that exclusive Club of Humanity. Underlying all you have done for the wretched who have entered your presence, is the most powerful guiding force and energy – Love.  Permit me:

In life without fail

One treasure prevails

Not riches or pride

They fall to the side

Neither power or glory

The failed ageless story

No remnants of these

Shall precious life seize

Why have we not learned

Through millennia churned

Beyond and above

There is only Love

And  so have you lived. They may weaken your body and take away your life but they can never extinguish the love which has permeated your life and work and blessed those who, even from afar, you have inspired.

As ever, and always,

Bill Pepper