Mutability

"Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability" - Shelley

This could have been entitled “Memo to Myself”.

An ordained colleague died suddenly and surprisingly a few weeks ago. We worked together for a time in what’s now called “transition ministry” and will no doubt be called something else in a couple of years. He was also a neighbor who lived across the cove from me in a pleasant house on the water. He was…