On Becoming
… part, though his body remains. Three weeks after my brother died of cancer, in 2021, my father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Tim and I knew it was coming. We talked about it in the last months of his life … powerful to me when I was a boy, was losing himself. Tim died near the end of May. I stayed up every night, unable to …
On Becoming
… fully conscious of the horror of what is actually going to come to pass. “Why do you want to become a citizen?” I was asked this by a local TV reporter as … to confirm our souls in self-control, to refine our goals, to ennoble our successes, to ensure that selfish gain …