You do not have to speak. You do not have to cry on schedule. You do not have to find a lesson in it.

If you have come into this room, you can put the book down on the table and just let it be a book on a table. That counts.

I am not a doctor. I am not a therapist. I am a father who learned, badly and slowly, how to stay in a chair when the person I wanted to stand up for was gone.