Some conversations are hard to start. But once you’re in them, you begin to truly value and be shaped by them. That was the experience at our most recent planned giving event, when local author and former Fort Lewis College journalism professor Jennie Dear joined us to discuss her book, What Does It Feel Like to Die? What followed was one of the most honest, tender, and unexpectedly hopeful conversations we’ve had in this series. Jennie’s path to writing this book was personal.