(Re)collecting
Dear Eugene, If you can pick a season to experience a life-changing tragedy (that you must face by the end of the year), what would your choice be? Hopeful spring? Youthful summer? Dreamy autumn? Cosy winter? Around Valentine's? Just before/after Christmas? Back to school week? Tax season? Mother's Day? Don't worry, I have nothing heavy or profound to say today; it only sounds like so. In fact, I think the weight of this question (which I personally have not heard asked) is in how matter-of-fact it all is when tragedy strikes. It just happens; what are you going to do about it? Not that you have not heard of something like this happening before. Not that anyone has pledged to make you the exception. Not that the possibility never crossed your mind. It kind of just happens, like in the final scene of " The Departed ," which in the script reads: COLIN (accepting it, sort of,but only in a COLIN way) ...