I know this season is heavy. I made you a little corner of the internet that's only on your side.
Sitting with your dad in a goodbye that won't hurry and won't wait.
Being the one who saw the pattern clearly, and paying for it.
Doing the growing nobody else in that room was willing to do.
The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them.— FRANCIS WELLER, THE WILD EDGE OF SORROW
Every family like that hands someone the job of being "difficult." Usually it's the one who stopped pretending. You weren't the problem. You were the one paying attention, and that pisses certain people off. Let it.
You don't owe blood more than it gives back. These are the people who actually show up. Tap one. The list is only getting longer.
"Sooner or later, though, we must venture beyond our biological family to find our logical one, the one that actually makes sense for us."— ARMISTEAD MAUPIN, LOGICAL FAMILY
No wrong answers. Heads up: your answers get sent to so I can actually do something about them.