UT Austin Memorial, 50th Anniversary. 1 August 2016 (photo by Justin Scott-Coe)

For all the folks who survived this horrible day on the UT Austin campus, and to those who did not make it through to August 2–including two women, Kathleen and Margaret, who were already gone forever long before the sun came up.

“The Breeze at Dawn” by Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks)

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.

You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.

People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.

The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.

I love this live recording of the Black Pumas’s “Colors,” with the UT Tower and the Texas capitol glowing against the dark sky, the floodlights bursting in like early morning.