Living with Grief

Experiencing painful nonsense–but staying open to joy anyway

Water Lilies, Claude Monet, 1915

Earlier this year, I asked my father for a meeting in person and he said no. I haven’t seen him in seven years. Almost a decade, I keep thinking. He said he couldn’t afford the trip but sent my youngest brother a postcard from Europe the very next month. He hasn’t called that brother in nearly two years.

My other brother a…