What are the gifts you have received?

• Life?
• Love?
• Friendship?

What investments were made by others in you as a child, student, or member of a club, school, or religious congregation?

What flows through you that you did not create, like genes, blood, breath, like language, phrases from old books, gestures from those you admired now dead?

What will you live; what will you give?

What will die with you and what will live on?

We thrive in community with others, or we live and die impoverished and alone.