can become cruel around grief.

There was no upside that balanced losing Caleb.

Maya living was good.

Caleb dying was terrible.

Those truths did not cancel each other into something acceptable.

Organ donation created meaning after loss.

It did not justify loss.

PART 61 — THE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

Three years later, not three months, I used part of Caleb’s remaining college savings to start a small annual art scholarship at his former high school.

Not because tragedy gave me purpose.