I don’t understand how any family goes through the things that this family experienced and then talk about it, for the world to hear. Maybe everyone needed a bit of dramatic separation, to make it more of a story than anything. For the rest of us, it is, but to this family, it’s real life.
The realization that we need to have a balance of in-person, and digital access is sometimes hard to balance. Digital is vital for people who can't monetarily or physically manage to get to a conference. However, the in-person also allows powerful interpersonal connections.