I Found My 87 Year Old Father Eating Cold Food Alone and Realized How Afraid He Had Become

had delivered that week, and he would complain about the seasoning the way he complained about everything that was not made by someone he knew personally, which was its own form of engagement with the world, its own proof that he still had standards and preferences and opinions that mattered to him. Afterward we would sit in the living room, and he continue reading …