Suddenly death visits.

For a while I could not remember some word
I was in need of,
and I was bereaved and said: where are you,
beloved friend?
Mary Oliver

Our beloved teacher, Kyogen, of Dharma Rain Zen Center, died suddenly last Thursday of a heart attack.
I will miss him as will our sangha, but mostly his beloved wife and co-Abbott Gyokuko, her face a sea of tears, at the memorial service on Sunday morning. She will miss him beyond all of us.