There’s a moment in the television show Supernatural that isn’t about monsters, or lore, or the end of the world. It’s quiet. Ordinary. Easy to miss if you’re waiting for something explosive to happen. Sam Winchester hands his mother, Mary, John’s journal. (Sam and his brother Dean carry deep, long-standing grief after the death of both of their parents years earlier. John has been dead for several years. As has she and now she's back, but that's a story for another time.)