When Grief is Labor
UNTITLED | By Shams Safieddine The day before Dad died, he asked me for a favor. He was sitting up in his bed at the assisted living facility in Aubervilliers, a northern suburb of Paris. His olive green eyes looked gently in my direction. His skin had paled and his once round cheeks now showed the sharpness of his cheekbones. In an adjacent Parisian suburb, there's an indoor skydiving facility. The website shows people in skintight leotards inside a kind of tube. A blast of air comes out of the ground and pushes them upward. The people in the video smile as