“My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one.” WritingFatherStruggleWifeDyingDaughterOvercomingCancerMy WifeMy DaughterAutismJournalDiagnosisCatharticMadeline Author:Jim Beaver
“War is a monster with snaky locks, and fiery bloodshot eyes, and harpy claws, passing over fair fields and leaving its footprints in burning villages, dying men, weeping wives and children, and needs to be seen by those who so eagerly clamour for it at every opportunity. The sight of that fearful phantom, girt round with skulls, chains reeking with blood and desolation and ruin in its track, would stop their eagerness for it, unless under real compulsion.” MenNeedsChildrenWarRealEyeOpportunityWifeBloodDyingFieldsFairsSightLeavingRoundsTrackMonstersPassingPassingsRuinsChainsBurningVillageFearfulLocksCompulsionWeepingSkullsPhantomsFootprintFieryClawsDesolationEagernessClamourHarpiesBloodshot Eyes Author:Moncure D. Conway
“My wife never look at me anymore, my children, my wife ... we only die once in our life. I'm dying every day when I get up in the morning.” LifeLooksChildrenDiesMorningOur LivesWifeDyingMy WifeGet UpMy ChildrenLook At Me Author:Bikram Choudhury
“Those are the stakes that are constantly there and how do those stakes change you? How does that change the person you are? If it does just turn out to be about survival then is that living? How does that make you, you? How does that change your identity? That picture of the governor, his wife, and his daughter, he wasn't that guy before this all started. People dying around him changed him into that.” PeopleIfsPersonsDoeGuyTurnsWifeDyingIdentityChangedSurvivalDaughterStakesGovernorsThat GuyPeople Dying Author:Scott M. Gimple