There is a specific kind of weight that does not sit in your shoulders. It sits in the pause. That small, terrible gap between knowing you must choose and having no idea which way to turn. Your mind, which on rested days can sort and weigh and conclude, now feels like a radio tuned to … Read more
You step off the plane, or the bus, or out of a car into a place where nothing looks familiar the street signs are in a language you barely understand the faces are new the sounds are different even the air smells different. At first, you tell yourself it will pass you just need time. … Read more
You have survived things that should have cracked you open you kept going. You did not fall apart but something else happened quietly, without your permission. The edges of your heart grew smoother not from wear. From cold. You started to notice it in small ways. A friend’s good news left you indifferent. A kind … Read more
The first nine times I fell, I got back up it was not pretty it was not fast but I did it the tenth time was different. I did not fall because I was weak. I fell because life kept swinging a job lost a dream broken a person I trusted walked away. Each time … Read more
That morning, I did not wake up I just opened my eyes the alarm had been ringing for an hour. I had hit snooze three times. My body was in bed, but my mind was nowhere I lay there, staring at the ceiling, waiting for something to pull me up. Nothing came. I asked myself … Read more