Thank you for sharing the "burning house" lines with us. They are beautiful and a good reminder. I will write them down as my own very small memorial of a good man who was much loved, and a reminder that we never know how our lives touch those far away, including some we never even knew existed.

"In sorrow we must go, for sorrow is appointed to us; and indeed by sorrow we do but say that that which is ended is good"

                                                        – J.R.R. Tolkien

I rejoice at your fortune to have experienced the friendship of someone very special. I mourn for those unfortunate people who have never had such a meaningful love at all.

Kelly