Thank you for writing and sharing this. Grief and death are subjects we quietly walk around—unaware how our silence is deafening. This is such an honest piece about how we can be there for others, how we must learn to move beyond our discomfort. Many years ago a dear friend told me after her daughter died that she wanted to hear her daughter’s name because it made her daughter’s life viable. It comforted my friend as well as her family.

Thank you, thank you for writing this for you and your wife, for Ruby and Hart and for all those who “don’t know what to say”❤️