As I approach the end of my first trimester and watch the ebb and flow of grief, I’m learning that certain experiences won’t be rushed, no matter how much you’d like them to be.
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Adagio
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What the hell is water?
In the four months I’ve been away from my blog, my father succumbed to cancer and my mother moved in. I think about David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water,” and I wonder if this is water.
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Life is a Spinning Progress Wheel
You know that spinning progress wheel? The one that just keeps going until you get fed up with it and you just ctrl-alt-delete and restart the damn thing? Life is that spinning wheel, but there’s no restarting the damn thing.
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My Life’s “Big Bang”
On October 8, 2022, I decided to measure my year from birthday to birthday. To commemorate, I started doing morning pages. I had a healthy streak going—one measured in months, not days or weeks—until life forced me onto the field of play.
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