"Hope is Now the Long Wait"

Regarding my friend, Leslie Bustard

I feel like I’ve been working my way around this post for the last two weeks, thinking about it, forming it in my mind, even sometimes, for various reasons, deciding not to write it: I wasn’t sure that I wanted to immerse myself in the sadness of Leslie’s passing, and even graver doubts I could write something that would in any way communicate the kind …