My Granddaughter Whispered Grandpa Do Not Go Home Until I Realized What She Had Heard

the sentencing. I had heard what I needed to hear.

What I was not prepared for was the silence afterward.

I had expected, in some dim way, to feel relief as the primary thing. And there was relief, somewhere underneath everything else. But what was on top of relief, what I lived inside for the months that followed, was a profound and disorienting quiet.continue reading …