[Oe List ...] Donald Moffett

[George Packard]

Don Moffett, You Are Gone and You Are Here

 

Don was a crusty compassionate soul,

There when you needed him.

No nonsense and to the point.

 

Why couldn't the Kemper Building have decent elevators

So that we wouldn't have to waste time turning the crank

To get each other where we needed to be?.

 

Why aren't you raising the money

That is needed to do the mission?

What else is so important that you can't be raising money?

 

Don was not afraid to ask questions and hold accountability

And at the heart of those questions

Was compassion.

 

Don, you might have moved on,

But you are here.

You are here when we ride the computerized elevators

In the ICA building that is now turning eco-green.

 

You are here

As we ask those who voice dreams to do the

Nuts and bolts work necessary to achieve them.

 

You are here

As we focus care on family, community and nation

And go beyond the comfortable

To do what has not yet been done to help shepherd in a

More just world.

 

You are with us as we,

Like you,

Venture off the beaten path

And require excellence.

 

We miss you, Don.

But you are here.

 

 

 

K. Elise Packard

Santa Fe, NM

June 11, 2011

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