Speak Softly Among Icebergs: our hours, and other media melting fast

A grief-wrought creature comes to terms with the suicide of his only child and a subsequent marital demise. He tries any and nearly every aid possible to buoy his sanity: drugs, sex, talk therapy and family gossip; travel near and far (real+imagined?), church and family traditions; other occupations and more??? schooling; literary therapy: writing to vent and better understand the world he wonders, wanders should he live in—

Recalling his own childhood, the man settles on those formative yea...