Emergent Gratitude

Making it through the death of my father

Photo by Žygimantas Dukauskas on Unsplash

Two months ago my dad passed away from pancreatic cancer. It was brutal and quick. He passed away only a couple of weeks after we found out it was bad. When my uncle told me the cancer was inoperable, I collapsed and wept in my driveway right as my neighbors walked past. A few days before that, my dad told me not to fly home right away because he thought he had…