What does it take? Everything and no/thing. The singular thing it doesn't take is time. Time took it.
(Anyway, I am ill equipped to answer. At 92, my close friend, my mother, is likely now in here final days and if not, then definitely in the end of this final season of her wonderful, singlular life. We only just had the memorial for my younger brother who died in his mid 50s a month ago yesterday. One thing I know, "I did not look away.")
What does it take? Everything and no/thing. The singular thing it doesn't take is time. Time took it.
(Anyway, I am ill equipped to answer. At 92, my close friend, my mother, is likely now in here final days and if not, then definitely in the end of this final season of her wonderful, singlular life. We only just had the memorial for my younger brother who died in his mid 50s a month ago yesterday. One thing I know, "I did not look away.")
Very moving, Michael.