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Prepping for a 2020 talk today, I reviewed former VP @JoeBiden life. I “knew but really didn’t know” about the tragedy of 1972 when weeks after a stunning upset win in his first Senate campaign, he lost his wife and baby girl to a car-truck crash, w/ his two boys injured as well.
I don’t know if he’s written about this, or spoken at length about it, but pause, especially if you are a happily married parent, and ask yourself could you have survived such a blow? And not just survived, but rebuilt a life and career. I don’t agree w/ @JoeBiden much.
But I find myself thinking about the depth of despair he must have been in, and the way he climbed back, and conclude where some would have become hard and unfeeling, @JoeBiden dealt w/devastation it by becoming the opposite, a friend of all. It isn’t a reason to vote for him.
But it is a compelling reason to always recognize his basic decency and journey, even through the gaffes and the errors, to see in a rebound from the pit of pits a reason to have hope for anyone suffering terrible loss.
