Grief During a Holiday of Gratitude - nytimes.com/2023/11/19/opi…

“The gratitude I’ll have this Thanksgiving will still come: from having had the chance to know this love, even in its pain,” writes sarah wildman of her first Thanksgiving after the death of her daughter. Read: nyti.ms/3G8DoYO

<the key to seeing each other’s humanity is in somehow recognizing how universal the terrible ongoing nature of loss is, how human it makes us, how frail, how essential each day is, when none of us has any idea about the next.> sarah wildman nyti.ms/3GcKETp

My younger daughter wrote a piece on losing O for Lilith Magazine “I’m Ten And I’ve Gone Through More Than Most Adults” lilith.org/2023/11/im-ten…

I’ve been thinking a lot about holidays this year, and absence.

“A year is a strange and terrible marker of time, simultaneously endless and instant,” writes sarah wildman. “A year of loss is a new form of permanence: This is the life we lead. It will not change.” Read: nyti.ms/49Idk3L

On Sunday it will be one year. Since O died in her room, in our house, in my arms. nytimes.com/2024/03/14/opi… #Grief #childloss #Cancer

‘Si ves un zorro y he muerto, seré yo’ nytimes.com/es/2024/03/16/…

“A year is a strange and terrible marker of time, simultaneously endless and instant,” writes sarah wildman. “A year of loss is a new form of permanence: This is the life we lead. It will not change.” Read: nyti.ms/497BEuK

.David Frum grants us the privilege of sharing his grief in this remarkable story of love that far surpasses our time on earth and the terrible pain of what the world lost when the family lost his daughter, Miranda.

"I’ve come to see that, after loss, part of what fuels a person’s ability to keep living — and not just survive — is a continued engagement with curiosity." An amazing sarah wildman piece on Joan Nathan and also, I think, on life nytimes.com/2024/05/26/opi…

What is necessary in grief is often the most basic, and the most difficult — consistency of presence,” writes sarah wildman. Read: nyti.ms/3V0tKyn

In Opinion “In mourning, and in crisis, food is often an action, an act. It is typically how we meet the needs of those whose pain we cannot imagine, especially when we feel stymied by our limitations,” Sarah Wildman writes. nyti.ms/44UKwDz

This wrenching piece was more than a year in the making. I hope it starts a conversation.

“Death in America is a whisper, a shame, an error.” Such an important and eloquent piece by sarah wildman nytimes.com/2024/11/25/opi…

“I developed a working theory over the course of Orli’s treatment that the American ethos that hard work leads to success rendered facing death, let alone dying, incomprehensible” - by ⁦sarah wildman⁩ nytimes.com/2024/11/25/opi… via @NYTOpinion

What if, when our daughter was dying, “we were presented with something other than relentless hope?” sarah wildman asks. “If we had been asked to really consider that Orli’s time on earth was limited, how would we have used that time?” Read: nyti.ms/4i512XL

"Was she going to die from her disease? It was a conversation she wanted to have." sarah wildman The New York Times #longreads nytimes.com/2024/11/25/opi…

“Everyone deserves the opportunity to sit with these questions at the end of life,” sarah wildman says in this episode of The Opinions. “It’s not impossible, but doing so requires us to recognize: It’s not sadness we should fear. It’s regret.” Listen: nyti.ms/4h1VnB3

In honor of Orli’s 16th birthday, please (re)read my friend ⁦sarah wildman⁩’s most beautiful essay …and look for the foxes and do the bucket lists. Be ‘here.’ nytimes.com/2024/03/14/opi… via @NYTOpinion