“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart,
and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for
that which has been your delight.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord,
and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
Augustine of Hippo
(my wedding day, 1983)
My priest
My confessor
My Godfather
My “god poppa”
My surrogate father
My confidant
My best friend
The Very Reverend David Browning Collins,
December 18,1922—-December 29, 2016
(My god poppa and Pope John Paul II /
Dean Collins was the American Anglican representative
to the Catholic–Anglican conference held at the Vatican 1980 )
(my godfather, a WWII Naval Officer, loved the sea and moved
to the Georgia coast once he retired from the priesthood / Julie Cook / 1988)
Just as the storm surge batters the tender sands of the shore….
The season of the long good-bye is currently battering my heart…
As such is the season of this time in my life…
(my son’s rehearsal dinner, Savannah, Ga / Julie Cook / 2014)
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