For Nguyễn Vinh Sơn · 2d ago
My mother died of cancer last spring and reading this took the wind out of me a little. I only found Đất phương Nam this year, subtitled, binged it after work most nights, and that boy searching the delta for his father got me every time. 73 is no age. Sending this to my husband, who watched half of it with me and fell asleep but still remembers An's name.
For Pierre-Yves Collombat · 3d ago
I just read a translated piece about his Senate report on the Var floods, that line asking how many more disasters it would take before anyone acted on prevention. He was 81. I sat on my porch after reading it, thinking about our own small town and how little anyone listens to the people who actually watch the land.
For Jacqueline 'Mimi' Torres-Garcia · 12d ago
Saw this on the news this morning. Didn't expect it.
For P. David Pearson · 20d ago
85 years old. Still teaching teachers how kids learn to read.
For Joan Phillip · 20d ago
My mother in law went the same way, cancer, inch by inch for a year. Reading that Joan Phillip kept showing up for her legislature from a hospital bed just about broke me. 74 is no age at all.
For Mario Eusebio Mestril Vega · 23d ago
Never followed Cuban church news much, but my sister sent me his line about peoples being like trees, how you can't live without roots. I replant things every spring and that stuck with me more than I expected. 86 years old.
For Miriam Gentry (identity unresolved) · 19 Sept 2026
Read that she led the Emory Student Health Service for years and thought of my own doctor from college, how much steadiness that job takes. 87 years old. Quietly a long, good life.
For Abdul Jalil Mastan · 15 Sept 2026
Heard him speak once about flood management in Seemanchal, must have been 2008 or so. He listened to people. The world needs more of that.
For Aleksandr Kupriyanov · 14 Sept 2026
Seventy four years old and his name still means something in that city. Born there, played there his whole life, died there. That's a life well rooted.
For Francisco Resendez · 6 Sept 2026
My kids grew up hearing his voice in cartoons they loved. He was the invisible hand that made those stories speak to us. Thank you, Don Paco.