Crazy Stable

Right: Don V. Becker, January 7, 1913 - December 27, 2006

Left:    Richard Q. Becker (my dad),  March 10, 1917 - December 19, 1985

At the last, tenderly,

From the walls of the powerful, fortress'd house,

From the clasp of the knitted locks--from the keep of the well-closed doors,

Let me be wafted.

Let me glide noiselessly forth;

With the key of softness unlock the locks--with a whisper,

Set ope the doors, O Soul!

Tenderly! be not impatient!

(Strong is your hold, O mortal flesh!

Strong is your hold, O love.)

                         --The Last Invocation, Walt Whitman