"Adoration is a form of face to face. When the compulsion to adoration grows less, or merely changes, unless the change is complete, the face changes and, in the case of a face at which one has looked for a long time, changes that are slight may appear to the observer to be melodramatic. We struggle with the face, see it everywhere & try to express the changes. In the depths of concentration the whole thing disappears. '' Wallace Stevens

The end suddenly arrived; unnoticed and unsolicited. It brought with it the usual mourning of what was...or wasn't. By coincidence, a friend sent the above lines from Stevens that provided no solace, but some understanding.