About a month ago I pre-recorded a virtual keynote for a conference in Israel. I was honored to share our son's story with this remarkable group of medical professionals, caretakers, parents, and patients. When I'm asked to speak, hosts usually ask me to spend 1-2 hours (which goes by in a blink) - so condensing this to 15 minutes was a challenge.

The title of this keynote was "The In-Between: Why the little moments matter more than you think." Translated in Hebrew and Arabic, It was an extension of an earlier keynote I gave for PPMD where I suggested the best moments in our life exist in the in-between. At the end of the day, when we long for what we lost, we don't long for trips ... we long for the ordinary. In an earlier essay, I wrote "I miss everything in between. I miss everything that was ever routine."

At least for me, grief has taught me the very things I long to do with those who are gone are the things I should be doing with those who are now living. Time is such a slippery thing ...