the Ravenna Hospice Care Team,
for their support, compassion, humor, and caring.
Rusty, Ginny, Maggie, and Canisha -
you lifted our spirits!
To Those Who Mourn
For that is the real truth;
man is a soul and has a body.
The body is not the man; it is only
the clothing of the man.
What you call death is the laying aside
of a worn-out garment, and it is no more
the end of the man than it is the end of you
when you remove your coat.
Therefore you have not lost your friend;
you have only lost sight of the cloak in which you
were accustomed to see him.
The cloak is gone, but the man who
wore it is not:
Surely it is the man that you love and not the garment.
C.W. Leadbeater
