Grief is to Feel, Not Fix | Brennan Wood | TEDxPortland

[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] My mother Doris was magic. She absolutely perfected the art of making every day, every ordinary moment a celebration. When a warm summer rain would roll through, she'd send my brother and sister and me out in our swimsuits to play in mud puddles. When I was obsessed with my cabbage fetch kid in 1983, she took it to Sears to have its baby pictures taken. She made the best Halloween costumes. Magic. My father once told me that when she was diagnosed with breast cancer at ...