Lest We Forget

Who is the elder who loved you enough to both care for you and challenge you? Who embodied a sense of how life should be and how it can be, so that when you think of her or him you want to live right and big too? Whose memory grounds you, so that when you stop and let their face be fresh again, you remember that life is both a privilege and a responsibility?

For Roland Deschain, the gunslinger knight hero-figure of Stephen King’s series, this experience