Elizabeth Edwards has passed. She wrote, in her book “Saving Graces” of having witnessed a ceremony, in Japan, in which candles were floated offshore, out into the water.  She had the vision that the bobbing, twinkling, moving lights were souls dying at the same time, passing together from this world to the next. She “saw” that what in the West we think of as the lonely last journey is in fact, a journey undertaken in the company of thousands we didn’t know on earth, but who suddenly become our community, those who give us hope and strength!  What a stunning,...