After Life
Thank you, Joan Didion, for opening your heart so publicly. Ultimately, the goal of living with grief is not to put it behind us but to integrate it into the layers of a life long lived together. The healing is in the recollection of the details you note: the memory of a drive home from a friend's, the breath-catching question of 'could we have a different ending on Pacific time?'
Joan Axelrod
Montclair, N.J.