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We are communicating directly into the ears of a nine-year-old boy who has lost his father. We will not focus on the magnitude of what we have lost, but on the enough-ness of Sean’s life, and our ability to translate that into a path forward.
I remembered a gut-wrenching scene in the movie Blue Valentine. Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams enacting, with exquisite precision, the moment their marriage died. This is it. Our Blue Valentine moment. I loved Sean, but nothing would be the same for us after this. He’d abandoned us in an auto-body parking lot. He’d threatened to kill me in front of Dash. Maybe my heart was steeling itself against the future.
the passing of public figures can create the rare occasions when our death-denying culture comes together to mourn. “When people seem overly distraught about the death of a famous person, they may actually be mourning a loss in their personal life, too.”
People say how resilient kids are, but I’m not convinced. I think we grow around our obstacles, like tree roots inching along the edge of a boulder.
