Dog:
"Love makes for life. It is the reason why everything holds together. When it does not & we lose what we love, than something has died. Death brings decay; but what brings death is decrease; the cause to grow less; waning of the one who can no longer help with the holding together. Love will come to this if we cannot, one to another, make it endeavor. When any does not, than someone is left to let go—lowered into grief like another, who too has let go, but lowered into a grave."
Brother:
“To grow less brings death, as death, the ruin of companionship. We grow old in the ways of the dispossessed: expelled from youth, deprived of vigor, banished from unbounded optimism, forced by decrease to lose the ones that make us live. Like the many in exile, denied entry to the territory of lasting peace. We learn to love with what is left. That is our wisdom. To not wait for our wandering to end, but to grow more & give what we have in love to help those who have less.”
In Memoriam: Brother Todd who let go September 13, 2000 & brother Isaac who let go September 13, 2006
