Status Updates From Blue Nights

as the fears of childhood dissipate, the fears of human frailty emerge as we age - how poignant but equally reassuring in a way🫠

One day we are absorbed by dressing well, following the news, keeping up, coping, what we might call staying alive; the next day we are not.

very good so far! love the intermingling of the grief of being a parent because of how new and fragile everything is paired with the grief of losing that fragility and youthfulness (memories :( )

She liked the sound of that. Her husband. My husband.
She would say it again and again.

Aging and its evidence remain life's most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.