I am grateful that Barbara McEntee added to Douglas Penick's elegant and succinct a summary of Kidder's activity as a scholar and translator. Barbara shared some of the impacts Kidder had on dharma students in Brunswick Maine during the decades he taught at Bowdoin College. She noted that he was playful , spirited, and loved dancing. In one early gathering of what became the Brunswick Dhamra Study Group he said with certainty that "you can't control your mind" -- which by now might be obvious but for the assembled early practitioners seemed heretical as some of us thought we ere still trying to do just that. In his Tricycle article on "Transmuting Blood and Guts:My expereinces in the Buddhist Military" he recalled the Kasung slogan " If you can maintain your sense of humor and a distrust of the rules laid down around you, there will be success." It was hard to know which part of the slogan he was guided by when he brought over the years visiting teachers Pema Chodron, Lama Surya Das, Seonaidh Perks, and Tratung Rinpoche to Bowdoin and/or the Brunswick Dharma Study Group. In the midst of an awkward dinner party he cut tension with demonstrating the art of hanging a spoon from his nose. At a Vajrayogini feast of students earnestly trying to learn the rituals we regarded as"sacred" asnd arcane he arrived without text or instruments dressed in a slinky purple dress, and "davenned" as we practiced. He communicated complete confidence when he led discussions of such texts as Tashi Natsok Rangdrol's Lamp of Mahamudra, that we had everything we needed to read, understand, and practice the texts. We were touched by his untamed confidence and goodwill, wish him the good next chapter he deserves, and hope to emulate his example on the way to freedom