Two years in hospice taught me something I can’t unsee: we are capable of incredible, radical humanity but somehow, we save it for the very end. When the noise fades, when the timelines stop, when someone is finally seen as a person instead of a problem to solve. Not long ago, something shifted for me. I found myself sitting across from the medical engineers behind the valve that saved my life, the people who helped create my second chance. I listened as they reflected my sto

After 24 years, we are preparing our family home for sale. It turns out that sanding down walls is a lot like looking back at a life. You see the layers, the repairs, and the history. As I stand here covered in the dust of two decades, the lessons I learned during my years in hospice have never felt more urgent. Hospice teaches you that we don’t actually own anything. Not a house, not a title, not a status. We are just stewards for a little while. The only thing we truly leav