Words fail in this chapter. So someone plays guitar instead.
We talk about what it means to use work as a wall against grief. About confrontations that don’t resolve, just... shift. About choosing to stay with someone you can’t forgive because the work matters more than the wound.
Part 2 of Vivia begins here, not with breakthrough, but with wreckage. And the first tentative notes of something being rebuilt.
And remembering my father, Dr. Shinya Inoué. Born January 5, 1921. Passed September 30, 2019. He had a great run.
