In an earlier part of his life, Reb David was a political pollster for the Democratic Party. He consulted for many congressional representatives ,senators and governors. He paid close attention to politics his whole life, maintaining an equanimity even with the election in 2016 and for the almost 4 years following until his death. I would rant and get very upset with what I saw and heard. He just took it in. I guess when you watch yourself, both body and mind falling apart inside and outside and can hold onto nothing, you learn to see with a greater scope and far less clinging. You can’t cling, even if you want to. Towards the end, he spoke very little but all he ever wanted to talk about was emptiness, and while his words did not make much sense, the look in his eyes and his feeling tone was of a knowing of something so important and so deep he just wanted to share THAT.

As I sit today and watch the ocean waves, there is a certain peace. The emptiness is vast and we are very very small and rather temporary. And then we get up and begin our lives once again and do whatever needs to be done next. If we are alive, then we do that in each of our uniqueness. It may be a crazy world but it is our world and it lives on, with all of us in it.