“I… I recognize that it’s you in the foreground, looking down from some higher spot at those men floating down the river where we released your ashes this morning.” I choke up, wait, and then go on. “One of those men in the inner tubes looks like it might be Manny.… I see Maisie and me on a path that runs alongside the river.… And Native women and men going about their lives like those peasants in the painting Mrs. Millman said inspired you.
