'...there was a public house on the way evidently, the local congregation used its basement. We stayed there. Twice, the bartender fed us the preceding night's scraps In the morning of the third day, an odd silence hovered above: rising…

'...there was a public house on the way evidently, the local congregation used its basement. We stayed there. Twice, the bartender fed us the preceding night's scraps In the morning of the third day, an odd silence hovered above: rising…

'...of communion...'

'...of economies both basic[?monetary?] and spiritual...'

(The defamission and the ensemble's intercession.)

Levi was a beautiful elder friend who suffered considerably. In spite of the 'ebbs and flows, waxings and wanings,' he seemed to quietly maintain a real relationship with the God who IS Love - a desire to care and - in his way - to be gently present…