distracted by the demands and opportunities of fruitful work and the countless distractions of the thin, virtual world, we—maybe the more honest word is I—could easily have missed the call to flourish together. But Angela has concentrated our attention and our love. In a centrifugal world where everything and everyone flees the demands of love, Angela was a center of gravity, drawing us back to one another and to true life—the life that really is life, the life that money cannot buy: the life of making flourishing possible, at great cost and with great tears.
