High fit

Storage is about what someone holds onto and how they manage what they carry. Alfred Zheng Li was sitting with an enormous amount — years of memories of his wife at different stages of illness and health, descriptions given by others in his grief group, a sense of what his life was supposed to have been. The essay was essentially Alfred sorting through storage: deciding what to keep, what felt hollow, and what actually captured the person he lost. His conclusion — that the most important things were the plainest ones — was a curation decision.