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| Feschcrift prepared by students. |
✨For Sir Brian at Sixty
Sixty…
Not a measure of time,
but of texture.
A life shaped not by the hours kept,
but by the silences understood.
There was once a young man
who believed that words could become windows,
that language could touch the heart of truth.
He walked through the years,
not seeking applause,
but meaning.
And in meaning,
he found grace.
His classrooms became places of quiet revolution.
Ideas bloomed there.
Questions were not feared,
but welcomed —
for doubt, he taught us,
is only a doorway to depth.
He showed us
that thought is an act of courage,
and that wisdom, when spoken softly,
can still move mountains.
Now, sixty seasons turn their gaze toward him.
He does not count what is lost,
but what has become part of him —
the students who carry fragments of his voice,
the moments that shaped his knowing,
the calm that follows the storm of striving.
And perhaps he knows now
what poets and philosophers have always whispered:
that life gathers not toward emptiness,
but toward peace.
For in the stillness beyond ambition,
in the quiet after meaning,
everything returns to its purest form —
light, memory,
and soul.
Feliz aniversário, Sir Brian.
May the years ahead be gentle,
and may the same grace
that guided these sixty years
continue to light your path.
Lots of Love
Priscilla
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