“Unraveling Desires and Dread: A Deep Dive into Casey Mulligan Walsh’s ‘The Full Catastrophe'”
And that is the power of both beautiful people and words — they stay with us. Like my grandfather of blessed memory, Eric remains in my thoughts, even though I’m no longer turning the pages of his mother’s book. “Life doesn’t stop, even when we think it should,” Walsh writes, and “our connection to those we love doesn’t end with death,” either. The best way to honor our dead then, she says, is to “keep the best of [them] alive.”
Walsh, in her infinite “I smile through my tears” wisdom, chooses the life her free-spirited, vibrant child doesn’t get to have — “a life of joy…pure joy…light and joy” — and we, in turn, choose the “all that matters is love” Walsh. Whether her writing connects us to our own incongruous selves or to a lost loved one whose spirit (like Eric’s) is “catching big air. Flying free,” it will leave a lasting impact, staying with us the way a granddaughter loves her grandpa or a mother loves her son: “to the end of the earth” — to their last breath and beyond.
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