Day 17

Grief-in-Place (Part 1)

You know that feeling when you first wake up in the morning, and there are just a few seconds where you aren’t fully conscious of your reality yet? Then it becomes clear, in an instant—your entire body seizes up and a sense of utter despair floods your chest?

This is where I have been at for nearly a month now… with increasing intensity over the past few days. Still processing how I want to begin talking about this.

Me in my storefront apartment during my 40th birthday “party” (via Zoom conference) on day 6 of sheltering-in-place. Struggling, but unaware of how far from the “peak” of my grieving process I was  — March 21, 2020

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