I revisited this site when a friend from college emailed it to me (“thinking of you”). I love that about Facebook/internet, that these things that move people so much find their way to you again after their initial flurry. The bad jokes and shocking warning emails tend only to make it around once (thankfully).
Photographer Phillip Toledano’s collection of photos and comments about his intense love of his father (both parents really) and his time with him after his mother’s death is a moving account of the potential beauty of the end of life. Not beauty as his father saw it – as a young Hollywood actor. But beauty in the depth of human compassion and connection and the growth/learning that is possible only when we face the end of a long, love-filled life.
