To Walk with Saints and Scholars

February 20, 2026

“At the Water’s Edge” Photo by LKV Walsh

From “Gestalt at Sixty” by May Sarton:

…I am not ready to die,
But I am learning to trust death
As 1 have trusted life.
I am moving
Toward a new freedom
Born of detachment,
And a sweeter grace —
Learning to let go.
I am not ready to die,
But as I approach sixty
I turn my face toward the sea.
I shall go where tides replace time,
Where my world will open to a far horizon.
Over the floating, never-still flux and change.
I shall go with the changes,
I shall look far out over golden grasses
And blue waters….
There are no farewells…

To Ponder: Is death “change-able” if all things are? Is that the essence of resurrection?