“And it doesn’t just bind us as humans. It binds us to life. Everything and everybody is different for me now,” said Mar. “My relationship with Trevor is forever transformed. And that with my animals. And the land our farm is on. Joshua had that. With Nalini. With his students. With the birds here. The cliffs. The beach. They were one with him.” She paused for a moment. “I realized that we can be whole and broken at the same time. But we can’t be disconnected and still be in the full flow of life and love. When we disconnect, we disconnect from everything.”
“Starting with ourselves,” said Sabrina, her voice thick with the tears flowing down her cheeks.
In the fire’s glow, James wiped away his tears. “I feel so awful that Amaranth went through his last years alone. And the final months in
