Dave Evans

She died five years ago this Thursday.

And that was probably one of the most intense and actually one of the most wonderful years of my life.

Well, there was that incredible year of her dying.

And then there was the year after she died.

And I often tell people the best year of my marriage is the year after my wife died because I learned so much about her.

The reason it was different for us was simply this acceptance.

We really do believe that reality is the only place anything can possibly happen.

And so we deferred all that what's next and why me, because frankly, none of that matters.

What was true was she was going to die.

So our choices were to be present to that.

or to be absent of that.

And, you know, we lived very publicly.

We have a lot of people, we wrote about it, and a lot of people walked alongside us.

So we kept hearing people say, gosh, you're doing such a noble job.

Well, thank you.

And I'm honored that people think that.

And technically it was true.

My vet, who's a good friend of mine, said, man, I don't know anybody going through this the way you guys are doing this.

And I said, well, Dave, his name is Dave too.

Thanks for saying that, but I gotta be honest with you.