To: To myself at forty, when Mom died
Teshuvah (Jewish)
April 16, 2026
You did not say what you needed to say at the bedside. You said it at the grave. She heard one or the other, or neither, or both. I forgive the silence at the bed. I keep the speech at the grave. Teshuvah is also for what we did not do — and the return is possible even after they are gone.