WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.480 align:middle line:84% So one of the beautiful poems in this book, 00:00:05.480 --> 00:00:09.740 align:middle line:84% I just want to send out to all of you tonight. 00:00:09.740 --> 00:00:13.340 align:middle line:84% I think I was thinking about this poem not just as a poem 00:00:13.340 --> 00:00:17.750 align:middle line:84% that we all need as we head into the next presidential election 00:00:17.750 --> 00:00:21.950 align:middle line:84% and as we live in this country together, 00:00:21.950 --> 00:00:24.890 align:middle line:84% but I was thinking about this poem 00:00:24.890 --> 00:00:27.290 align:middle line:84% when I was thinking about how much I 00:00:27.290 --> 00:00:31.500 align:middle line:84% was going to miss being there in person with you tonight. 00:00:31.500 --> 00:00:38.230 align:middle line:90% So this is called what you-- 00:00:38.230 --> 00:00:40.900 align:middle line:84% something-- [LAUGHS] says What You'd 00:00:40.900 --> 00:00:44.155 align:middle line:84% Want to Remember by Miriam Marty Clark. 00:00:44.155 --> 00:00:48.430 align:middle line:90% 00:00:48.430 --> 00:00:52.930 align:middle line:84% Yeah, let's not forget what we experienced in the pandemic. 00:00:52.930 --> 00:01:00.560 align:middle line:84% I say to myself, what you'd want to remember? 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:08.500 align:middle line:84% Now, daylight spent, darkness falls before supper. 00:01:08.500 --> 00:01:15.460 align:middle line:84% Votives flickering down the long table, and voices. 00:01:15.460 --> 00:01:23.790 align:middle line:84% Someone leaning in to hear, or back, to laugh or consider, 00:01:23.790 --> 00:01:33.090 align:middle line:84% someone reaching over to touch, sensitive, kind, not 00:01:33.090 --> 00:01:37.080 align:middle line:90% out, but over, across the dark. 00:01:37.080 --> 00:01:39.650 align:middle line:90% 00:01:39.650 --> 00:01:45.030 align:middle line:84% It wasn't any one thing you'd want to remember later, 00:01:45.030 --> 00:01:50.580 align:middle line:84% a story, gesture, a beautiful face 00:01:50.580 --> 00:01:53.550 align:middle line:90% animated in the candlelight. 00:01:53.550 --> 00:01:58.200 align:middle line:84% The glass is refilled again and again. 00:01:58.200 --> 00:02:05.020 align:middle line:84% And how late you stayed, talking into that autumn night. 00:02:05.020 --> 00:02:10.680 align:middle line:84% You'd need an old word for what it was. 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:18.755 align:middle line:84% Our common weal, you'd need that when you thought back. 00:02:18.755 --> 00:02:22.495 align:middle line:90% 00:02:22.495 --> 00:02:25.890 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:02:25.890 --> 00:02:35.110 align:middle line:90% 00:02:35.110 --> 00:02:35.860 align:middle line:90% Thank you, Derek. 00:02:35.860 --> 00:02:38.170 align:middle line:84% I know you can't see me, but I'm looking up at you. 00:02:38.170 --> 00:02:40.240 align:middle line:84% And you're always been a little larger than life. 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:42.970 align:middle line:84% And I mean that in the best way, but literally this evening. 00:02:42.970 --> 00:02:45.730 align:middle line:84% And this is what I was going to say if Derek was here. 00:02:45.730 --> 00:02:46.510 align:middle line:90% Thank you, Derek. 00:02:46.510 --> 00:02:48.790 align:middle line:84% It's about time we got you down to the Poetry Center 00:02:48.790 --> 00:02:51.700 align:middle line:84% to bring some of that Pacific Northwest poetry magic 00:02:51.700 --> 00:02:53.110 align:middle line:90% to the desert Southwest. 00:02:53.110 --> 00:02:55.400 align:middle line:84% But even though you're not here in person, 00:02:55.400 --> 00:02:58.400 align:middle line:84% I think it's clear that Derek shared that magic with us 00:02:58.400 --> 00:02:58.900 align:middle line:90% tonight. 00:02:58.900 --> 00:03:01.650 align:middle line:90% So thank you brother for that.