| A Hand Across Time - A Tribute to a Friend |

| For Marie Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are --- chaff and grain together --- content that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away. ---- Dinah Murdoch |