“Who do I want notified in case of emergency?”

The fear is not for what is lost. The fear is for what is still to be lost. You may see nothing still to be lost. Yet there is no day in her life on which I do not see her.

JOAN DIDION reads from Blue Nights (in bookstores now)
Read an excerpt
See/hear JOAN DIDION at IFOA November 8th / $10

*see also: In Loss, a Mother Explores Dark Questions and Bright Memories