. . . though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. —Haldir of Lothlorien, The Fellowship of the Rings I’ve had a large helping of grief the last five years...

Park University hosted the 2018 MiddleMoot in Kansas City, the first in the metro area and the second after a moot in Waterloo, Iowa, in 2017. I was fortunate enough to be allowed, and even...