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We never know exactly
How a seed will grow
Will it suffer challenge
Or what talents it might show
What are we to wish for,
What dreams are we to witness,
The direction they will grow in
And if we will be there as a litmus
We know it won’t be easy
But life so rarely is
We just need to be there
With a gentle smile and promise
We just need to give it water
And room to see the sun
As we sit back and marvel
At the life that has begun
For Ed, his loves have been his family,
his country, and the marines
Most would watch and learn
as his wisdom and kindness were seldom unseen
Somewhere along the line
He came to Rotary
And now the club is graced with wisdom
and a bit of poetry
Ed wrote for students and past presidents alike
But for each one, the gift was the same,
A twinkle, a smile, a lesson in words and life
He hoped they listened,
He hoped they took his words to heart.
He wrote with love and incite
Giving his all before they were to depart.
But all of this brings us to our current purpose
Our current task at hand …
Some might describe Ed as feisty
or perhaps, with age,
a little more mellow
But today, here with us,
He’s our latest Rotary Paul Harris Fellow.
Congratulations Ed Boucher