Death is an Ocean

Life on the near shore

Waking up 40 floors above the Waikiki traffic just as the sky begins to lighten Oahu, on the morning of my father-in-law’s memorial service, is an otherworldly experience. I slide open the glass door of the suite my sister-in-law got for us and go out onto the deck, where the height makes my knees melt. I sit in a patio chair and take in the surrounding…