In the first week, you'll feel strange and self-conscious, like at an EST meeting where everyone's secretly wondering when someone's going to tell them to take off their clothes. Then the self-consciousness slips away. You're talking about this and that. What happens to us when we die. Conversation moves from self-conscious to spirited.
Strangers look in.
Drag up a chair. And the group grows. And a week turns into two weeks, turns into three or four. People go on vacation or just drift away. But others mark the date on their calendar.