Dearest Bill, In the spirit of your generous and amused listening to my unharnessed singing of a playlist for eight hours straight on the way to retreat more than once… I think of you when singing those songs, while practicing, during and after Rinpoche’s teachings, and now and then in my dreams. I miss and find you everywhere, smiling with the sadness, right there in the joy. Protective, skillful, and light hearted. Your particular ways of living and dying in the challenge are blessings unfolding ongoingly. “You pulled me like the moon pulls on the tide. You know just where I keep my better side.” ~Bonnie Raitt “Like the songs that the darkness composes to worship the light.” ~Dan Fogelberg “You reduce me to cosmic tears.” ~Alanis Morissette “Rest in natural great peace. This exhausted mind. Beaten helplessly by karma and neurotic thought. Like the relentless fury of the pounding waves. In the infinite ocean of samsara. Rest in natural great peace" ~Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche This love for you, Rishi, is endless. Yours truly in the Dharma, Shicho