Seasoned Traveler

Any man's death could end the story:

His mourners, having accompanied him

To the grave through all he knew,

Turn back, leaving him complete.

But this is not the story of a life.

It is the story of lives, knit together,

Overlapping in succession, rising again from grave after grave.

For those who depart from it, bearing it

In their minds, the grave is a beginning...

Ended, a story is history;

It is in time, with time

Lost. But if a man's life

Continue in another man

Then the flesh will rhyme

Its part in immortal song.

By absence, he comes again.

 

            ~~by Wendell Berry~~              

Where people love and live the ideals and seek the wisdom for which Mortimer Adler labored, he will continue to live and inspire.  We can give him no greater tribute than to also love and to perpetuate the ideas he loved.

Marji Meyer
Founder, School of Abraham