Emergent Gratitude
Making it through the death of my father
4 min readDec 13, 2019
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…