“My father lived an honorable life. He fulfilled his responsibilities to those who depended on him. Without question, he was a loving man, but there was something unknowable and untouchable about him. The optic nerve makes a blind spot at the back of the eye, though all vision depends on it.”—Karl Kirchwey, “All Shall Be Well”

Plus: J. Malcolm Garcia documents the struggle to survive a tent encampment in Oregon, Izidora Angel recounts a girlhood spent skinning her knees in 1980s communist Bulgaria, Eric McHenry goes fishing in the newspaper archives, and much more