Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.
The dead do not harm us, only the alive.
After a lifetime's independence– yes, selfish independence as my daughter would rightly claim – I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals.
Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality.
Try to capture what you can't bear to be without
Things don't matter, people do