This collection of essays is an attempt by various family members to define a brother from whom brotherhood is the desideratum behind every brushstroke or utterance. Bill Bissett is family to everyone who knows him. Over the years and across the continent, he has created a grid of light that connects stranger to stranger so that none of us are strangers. We speak the same language, a phonetic liturgy that makes us all understandable to one another. Authors included are: Jamie Reid, Jay Ruzesky, Susan Musgrave, Joy Kurapatwa, Scott Watson, Adeena Karasick, Tim Carlson, Linda Rogers.