[Caleb's stream of conscious email. Apologies for punctuation and capitalization]

I'll ALWAYS REMEMBER ...KAUAI...HAWAIIAN PARADISE (5 days) Wonderful sights and experiences...LUAU'S (we drove over 600 miles)
My FRANTIC feelings, gasping for air and swallowing water...NEAR DROWNING WITH MY "BOOGIE" Board...HELICOPTERING etc......

Tuesdays here in my Cocoon...BROADCASTING "HUG-NATION" AROUND THE WORLD WITH GRANDSON JOHN.

AT 1 OCLOCK after lunch.......RESPONSES HAVE COME FROM CANADA,THAILAND,GREAT BRITAIN, POLAND....& 15 STATES RESPONDING AS THEY SEE & HEAR US...AMAZING!...

Now I'M DOING THINGS LIKE BOOKS, PLAYS, WALKS, MUSICAL FEASTS, DANCING, CULTIVATING PEOPLE IN A WAY I NEVER THOUGHT I HAD TIME TO DO BEFORE.....

Most of my Family... gathered June 5th for the San Diego MARATHON (TWO GRANDAUGHTERS; FROM N.Y. CITY & COLORADO SPRINGS... BROOKE& ABBY RAN RACE IN 3HOURS 38 MINUTES!) I waved an Orange sign urging them on...17,000 runners!...They ran from Balboa Park to the big Marine Base...

We then gathered FOR FELLOWSHIP & EATING...& Jacuzzi playing with three of my Great Grand Children. Feeing & seeing "Generation to Generation." 4 generations!...You see yourself in build, physical responses like your children ;their parents...How wonderful to watch and see & revel in young wondrous new life...

To change the subject :
THREE, REALLY CLOSE FRIENDS of mine IN MINISTRY HAVE DIED THE PAST TWO WEEKS....TWO OF THEM (like myself) are LIFE-LONGMINISTERS...& DR. Eugene Dawson; President of Colorado College in Denver & University of Redlands...
In the condolences...I've thought a lot about Death.
"DEATH"....The stopping of physical life.. ...So this is my feeling/writing...with Joy & Thankfulness in my heart... for our relationships..
I feel good that all our Family do training: Running, Hiking, Trekking, Biking etc.... The respectful way they treat their bodies and tune them amazes me...

My 4 mile Runs...in 1933-36 through the Pasadena Orange groves... ending in the Rose Bowl....I thought was terrific...but NOW.. 26 miles..& wheel chair racers.
I am rejoicing and thankful for each one..
in our "Tribe"

So, in these 30 days I have been thrilled with the life I have lived...
I have good feelings about myself, Carol (68 year partnership) & the 4 Churches in Washington & Colorado who allowed Carol and me to serve The Living Christ.... in our 68 year ministry with the American BAPTIST CHURCHES.

I showed my "stuff" with all my Life Activity -symbols at my 93rd Birthday Party (April 9th), I emptied much of my memorabilia from my "Cocoon."

It was a Celebration of my life which I thoroughly enjoyed; and set me thinking more about the mystery of Death.
A few days ago, at the 69th Anniversary of my college graduation, from Redlands University , I walked a Beautiful new Labyrinth, located behind the Chapel...

My 90 year old sweetheart-classmate ; Laura, meditated with me for a few Circles & then waited in the shade of a nearby tree...

As I walked, I cogitated on three words (One of my T.V. Pastor's gave me these words in response to this death-denying culture) Jerry Mann, whose wife died recently, like my Carol, says about Death:
* Face it (the moment we are born we begin to die)..What cannot be avoided must be welcomed...
*Embrace it (It's as normal as birth).

*Erase it (Let Faith & Grace envelop you. Turn your life over to God...Claim your Christhood; (for me, & I hope for you);....Yahweh, Buddha, or Allah;...Your pathway of Light.

Remembering that Life is a loan.. I think, God loves you more than you love yourself...
Think God's Thoughts...Obey them.