My father died
many years ago,
and yet when something special
happens to me,
I talk to him secretly
not really knowing
whether he hears,
but it makes me feel better
to half believe it.
Source: Is This Where I Was Going?, Warner 83
-- Natasha Josefowitz, (Oct 31 1926-____), US radio script writer; She wrote Too Wise to Want to Be Young Again: A Perspective on How to Stop Counting the Years and Start Living Them.