06/22/2026
as we get closer to NYC Pride this weekend, we wanted to share the words of our beloved author Jack Wiler. This poem comes from Wiler’s posthumous collection, attention is paid to the present moment. Wiler examines, with humor, compassion and fearlessness, the pleasures in life—especially the varieties of love—from friendship to sex—and how we are capable of ruining those pleasures for ourselves or for others. Jack helps us understand that life and death are each, in its own way, gifts we must live with relish, abandon and commitment.