On Colliding With a Deer

And Learning to Live with the Random Nature of Things

Van Gogh’s “Wheat Field With Crows”

I left the house at 5:15 p.m., and it was already dark. Our 9-year-old Leo sat in the back seat chatting away about Lionel Messi or the current recess games at school or interesting facts about the ten largest cities in the world. Just Leo being Leo. Before leaving, Maile and I had a quick conversation about which car…