Status Updates From A mágikus gondolatok éve

Dog eared for reference (“the heart of the difference between grief as we imagine it and grief as it is”) because upon first read, I know I will want to come back to this page.

“Why didn’t I listen when he said we weren’t having any fun? Why didn’t I move to change our life?”
(This is in reference to J & G Black aka the Mormons living in Indonesia for 5 years btw)

and I just want to say you know what I did move to change my life multiple times and I’ll do it again, and this tiny little chapter made me feel like that’s the right thing to do actually and I’ll do it for Joan.

I want to know how and why Joan Didion has so many random encounters with Mormons! I read:
“I said I knew what John meant when he said we were not having any fun. What he meant was something that had to do with Joe and Gertrude Black, a couple we had met in Indonesia in December 1980.” And I had a feeling they were Mormon. Google’s first result was JB’s obituary on deseret.com.
“The concept of service.”