“I know this: when we lose people we love, they go back to our ancestors, back to the stars. All that love doesn’t just vanish. It’s absorbed by country and sea and sky, by everything, and it lives on. I know this,’ Nin said. ‘But it still hurts, every single day that she’s not here with us.”

“I know this: when we lose people we love, they go back to our ancestors, back to the stars. All that love doesn’t just vanish. It’s absorbed by country and sea and sky, by everything, and it lives on. I know this,’ Nin said. ‘But it still hurts, every single day that she’s not here with us.”

— Holly Ringland