Everything would be done for Levi that could be done, as if the dead cared about an orderly house, or what quilt he was wrapped in, or if the chickens had fresh water. But her people were in the beginnings and the endings. They were in the births and the deaths, the weddings and the times of sickness, the worship and the dancing, the weeping and the laughter, the work and the singing. They would do what they could.
