What I Would Not Part With

I lost my wife in 2020 to a brain tumor just a few weeks after we had celebrated our 48th wedding anniversary. "Celebrated" is a word that springs back when pressed down. More subdued than earlier ones, to be sure, that last anniversary was nonetheless a felt celebration of a lifetime together. A lifetime does not disappear just as soon as you know for certain that the end of it for one of you is near. It does not even disappear when that end comes, for you have kept what you would not part...