Every Brilliant Thing

And a note to my wife on a train ride from Spain to Paris

I told her she should watch this thing with me. I tried to describe it… it’s about depression and this guy gets the audience to be a part of the the show and his mom kills herself and he has a list of all the important things and… I told her I was glad I watched it without her the first time because she would have only mocked me for crying.

It was mostly over but I put it on and told her to stay with me to watch the rest of it. He got the two girls to hold the electric piano. He told the story of the music and his Sam singing a song. He told the story of Sam asking him to marry her and his dad’s toast. He told the story of Sam leaving and finding her note in a record seven years later. He told the story of running out of things to put on his list. He told the story of his mom killing herself. He told the story of Sam texting him that she would be there for him and that Beyonce was related to someone I can’t remember anymore. He told the story of finally getting help. He finished the st…