Headline: Senator McCain
Has Brain Cancer
and all the pundits
scramble
to recalculate
the political calculus,

and I think of
the Late Senator
Edward Kennedy,
and a friend posts on Facebook
about her son
who has also died of brain cancer,

and I think of
another friend on Facebook
who lost her son
a few years ago
this month
to brain cancer.

We must listen to other voices
and pray for those who grieve.

At noon-time Eucharist
we celebrated the life
of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
and the importance
of women’s voices
in politics,
in religion,
in arts,
in life,

and a friend
whose brother died
on the shores of Dunkirk
said she couldn’t watch
the documentary;
it wasn’t likely to tell
her side of the story
hearing the battle raging
across the channel,
and we talked about
the importance
of women’s voices
in politics,
in religion,
in arts,
in life.