1: It was the spring of 2019.  Author and columnist David Brooks‘s close friend Peter Marks was struggling with depression.

They had gathered for a weekend together.  “My wife noticed a change immediately,” David recounts.  “A light had gone out.  There was a flatness in his voice, a stillness in his eyes.” 

Pete told David what he already knew: “He wasn’t himself.  He was doing what he loved most—playing … continue reading