Kaddish

Having watched ‘The Grizzly Man’ by Werner Herzog, I was interested in how the surviving family deals with the unfavourable turn of events in nature.

The author Shannon Huffman Polson with her trip to the campsite where her father was attacked and killed by a bear also takes us on a journey of her life with her father. While the book starts with a look at state of grief in the modern world, traveling in a desolate place, she weaves life out of all the memories with her father and grandfather and returns home with a beautiful mental tapestry of life enriched with the beauty of music and nature.

In the ‘Wilderness of grief’ the author manages to say Kaddish, and praise God and nature.

After Yarnell fire accident that resulted in loss of 19 firefighters, I had learnt that a person takes care of dead bodies as a sign of respect until burial. The author's  grandmother's end of life reminded me of John Price's grandmother deciding to close shop which end up teaching the grandkids about the beauty of fragile life.