To Love and Be Loved

On a recent day of pouring rain, my extended family both mourned and celebrated a life well lived.

A cousin-in-law of mine, a Brit by birth, who adopted New England as his home in adulthood, was the type of person who lived large and always seized the day, had an insatiable curiosity, and could easily drop a Shakespeare quote into an otherwise mundane conversation.

He was definitely one of those people who didn’t waste a minute of life.

So as a throng of people celebrated and toasted his remarkable life, one mentioned a quote that was his favorite.