My Father Never Met His Granddaughter But She Ll Know His Stories
The heightened awareness of mortality that you get after a death doesn’t last. For me the fearlessness that is a side effect of loss slipped away after a few months. I didn’t realize it was gone until I went back to things like stressing over errors on our cable bill. The magical contrails of loss had vanished. By then my life had already changed. A kid was coming and I was choosing what to assimilate from my father’s life into my own....