Dear Dad, I can’t believe you’ve been gone a whole year already. I’ve been thinking about you so much these past few days, remembering so many details of this weekend a year ago, not realizing then that they would be my last memories of you this side of heaven. The theme of the last 365 days has been a very hard beautiful: this year has brought deeper pain than I’ve ever experienced, but these days have also brought peace I cannot explain and growth that probably would not have come any other way.