Stranger at the Well

Two strangers passed through. The lives stayed behind.In a village after a flood, a widow will not put down a wet shirt. A carpenter builds a house for a sister who can no longer thank him. A boy at the back of a funeral procession watches a single leaf come to rest on the white cloth, and carries it for the rest of his life. A monk sets his bowl down in a crowded market and finds, to his surprise...