In the months since his daughter’s death, Malcolm Astley has sought to make sense of the tragedy - trying to read, walk, and write his way through the grief. But fundamentally he is a teacher. A member of the Wayland School Committee and a former Lexington elementary school principal, Astley is grappling with a way to turn his loss into a broader lesson.
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"Model of grace and humanity." Perfectly stated. This dear man can teach all of us a lesson in compassion and grace. Highly-evolved. I hope he can get to a place of stormy peace one day after enduring the unimaginable loss of his beautiful daughter.
Malcolm Astley is a living example of God's grace.
This man is a saint. Peace be with him. By the by, where is her mother in all this? I have never heard her mentioned or referred to in any story about Lauren's death.
"Where is her mother in all this?" What kind of question is that??? It almost aounds as if this person thinks that because Lauren's mother isn't on the news or in the paper she's been absent, or somehow feels the loss less than Lauren's dad. While she isn't one to be in the public eye, they should know without doubt, that Lauren's mother struggles every day to put one foot in front of the other while looking forward to what would be her daughter's 19th birthday.