Walking Toward Morning: Meditations

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In a cemetery once an old one in New England I found a strangely soothing epitaph. The name of the deceased and her dates had been scoured away by wind and rain but there was a carving of a tree with roots and branches (a classic nineteenth-century motif) and among them the words "She attended well and faithfully to a few worthy things." At first this seemed to me a little meager a little stingy on the part of her survivors but I wrote it down and have thought about it since and now I cant imagine a more proud or satisfying legacy. Every day I stand in danger of being struck by lightning and having the obituary in the local paper say for all the world to see "She attended frantically and ineffectually to a great many unimportant meaningless details." How do you want your obituary to read? --from "Set in Stone" Walking Toward Morning affirms my sense of being present to life. Victoria Safford writes with great joy and attentiveness. These meditations are simply wonderful. I will return to them again and again. --Rev. Keith Kron Victoria Safford is currently serving as minister of White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church in Saint Paul Minnesota. She holds a degree from Yale Divinity School.