The talisman of our eternal nows

"What has hardened will never win"

I want to tell you about one of the most surprising moments of my life. It happened when we came to pick my father’s body up from the morgue.

I should have been horrified, but seeing him, I felt pierced with light.

A warm, fizzing wave of love and gratitude crashed over me, it was as if the walls of that place were made of love, and the scuffed floor, an…