To keep going, Katherine reminds herself every day of all the ways her life has been enriched—blessed by Brooke and his life, by her daughters and her grandchildren, by Atticus and Blue, and finally by the presence of grief itself. “Ultimately, the events of the last few years have been a terrible lesson in being present—and not just being present in my own life, but being present in the lives of the people I love,” she says. “Tomorrow may happen, tomorrow may not.”
