Henry is not well. By the time you read these words, he will have had surgery a...

Henry is not well. By the time you read these words, he will have had surgery and hopefully the surgery will help. In the meantime, the words I have had in my head for the last few days have come from Mary Oliver’s poem “In Blackwater Woods:”
“To live in this world/you must be able/to do three things:”
And the first of those three things is to love what is mortal.
The words of a friend’s ten-year old son helped, too.
He suggested that I write a story about Henry.
I feel my heart lift every...