1: Eleanor Brown took out her journals and sighed.

“There were some good times,” she said, “but mostly these journals are filled with over fifty years of dreams that never came true.”

She confided this to  Diane Button, her end-of-life doula.

Eleanor was seventy-two years old. She had been journaling since she was 21.

She flipped through the pages, reading entries aloud, as Diane recalls in her powerful book … continue reading