Status Updates From Dear Damage

He’s back he’s so back

"it seems there’s no end to the ways that tenderness infiltrates suffering, and vice versa. At any given moment, there are countless combinations of darkness and light."

“…my mother made brightness materialize. How lucky for us to sit at the center of her life.”

“But I like being on a [soccer] team for the Gatorade and orange slices and saying good game as I high-five strangers.”

“For that reason…I have since then pictured death as a place…where women we love return to us, radiant, and unabridged, burdenless, their destinies fulfilled. Where they finally find our faces and don’t need to speak a word as they greet us in joy, in ease, in dresses seen from the fabric in the colors they loved most on earth.”