A friend says he will miss me when I go.
And not only this camel, but people, like Reed, whom I spent two hours with today doing anticipatory missing you conversationing. The type of conversation with loads of joy with an undercurrent of always there sadness and longing.
Fourteen years in an intentional community, you get to make a lot of friends. Some you only see once a week or once a month, but all of whom you love, because your life and practice is about that one thing.
