This ride with Stella was filled with regret, grief, wisdom, and gratitude. It doesn’t make sense to me, but somehow all of these emotions can exist together in the same place at the same time. I regret that I didn’t take advantage of the time that God gave me with my Dad. The permanence of death reminds me that I won’t get a second shot at this, and as time unravels my sorrow becomes heavier. Yet through this pain, I am grateful to have learned this lesson sooner rather than later. Because thro