Dwite Brown was sitting at Sokoji and sending Zen stories to his brother Ed. Alan Winter and Ed Brown came to check the West Coast out and started sitting at Sokoji too. Dwite worked with Silas Hoadley in Silas’s importing business. He became an Episcopalian minister and taught computer science at a college. He and his wife Judy converted to Catholicism over three decades ago. Now they live near and are involved with the Abbey of New Clairvaux, a rural Trappist monastery located in Northern California in the small town of Vina in Tehama County.