Legacy MattersJoan Didion wrote, "We tell stories in order to live." We all tell stories. It is how we storytellers make sense of our lives and what's happened to us.
Stories are the best way to keep memories alive as Patty Digh knows and writes in Remember Daddy
Besides the loss, obvious though that is to any of us who have suffered the death of someone we love, the worse thing about someone so important dying is the very idea - the very chilling incomprehensible thought - that people will forget them.
By telling his stories, and passing them along to Emma and Tess - and to you - he lives on. That's my job. It is all we have besides small luggage tags with his handwriting, photographs, a red corduroy shirt, his Mickey Mouse watch. Let's pass stories along, shall we?