Status Updates From Zami : A New Spelling of My...

“It was years before I ever admitted how ferried of them I was, also. It was too important to me to seem fearless and in charge and brave”

“We learned that not feeling at all was worse than hurting.”

“And in the process we learned that pain and rejection hurt, but that they weren’t fatal, and that they could be useful since they couldn’t be avoided.”

“I am a reflection of my mothers secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers.”