Strike a match above a sheet of paper and time becomes visible. Before the flame touches the page, one movement of the hand can prevent the damage. Once the corner catches, another kind of action becomes possible. Smother the flame. Tear away the burning edge. Save what remains. But after…
Tag: Grief
Health & Longevity 
The Body Slowly Learns Hope
There is a strange mercy hidden inside our livingness. We suffer as if grief has carved its final name into us. We believe, in the first violence of loss, that what has happened has become a permanent country within the soul, a dark nation with fixed borders, a place from…
Memoir & Life 
The People We Lose by Living
We begin life surrounded. Before we know our own name, others have already spoken it with hope. Hands lift us, feed us, wash us, carry us from room to room. We arrive into a world already occupied by faces bending over us. Mother. Father. Grandparents. Siblings. Neighbors. The first truth…
