My Next Breath: A Memoir

by Jeremy Renner

We are all eternally connected, bound by love and the purest parts of our being, bound by shared history and our innate, unyielding, unchanging energy.

My name is Jeremy Renner. I am a son, a father, a brother, an uncle, a friend. Everything else matters not at all. One breath in, one breath out. One breath in, one breath out. One breath in, one breath out. How long can this go on? I am about to find out.

Information is what squelches fear. We are only afraid of the unknown. Ignorance, or lack of experience, is simply a lack of data. Not all information takes away fear, but any amount of it can dampen the insecurities and the killing unknowns of fear.

What was a bit unsettling, though, was jumping down off the snowcat and finding small pieces of my clothing still stuck in the tracks. There was part of my hat; there were strips of my clothes. The sheriffs had removed most of this stuff back when they’d impounded the machine during their pro forma investigation, but they had missed some of it, and here it was.