Our daughter didn't want us to sell the house, so we bought it from my two brothers. We just kept it in the family.

We got married and then I left with him and had been moving around Nebraska ever since.

The social and community service aspect is what keeps us all active. Some of us are still volunteer firemen and blood donors.

It's our problem. You've got to be responsible. Anything to help my brothers from killing each other, I'll come.

All of that combined gave us the impetus to do it.

What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls between ourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve the distinctions between flesh and spirit, to transcend the present limits of time and matter, to find, at last, not wealth or power but the ecstasy (so long forgotten) of commonplace, unconditional being. For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man-the heart of it-is pure and holy joy.