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Love with nowhere left to put itself.
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
If you are missing someone tonight, you do not have to explain or resolve it. Missing them is its own form of company. Let the feeling stay...
You cannot set down what you refuse to name. Whatever is heavy this morning — say it plainly, at least to yourself. Naming is not complainin...
Disappointment is not proof that you aimed too high. It is proof that you aimed at something real enough to lose. The alternative — never ri...
You do not have to solve grief tonight, or finish it, or justify it. You only have to let it rest beside you while you rest too. It can keep...
Grief does not follow your schedule. It arrives on ordinary Tuesdays and leaves when it is ready. You do not have to be finished with it. Yo...
Some things ended today that did not deserve a funeral — a season, a role, a version of yourself. Endings are allowed to be quiet, and to be...
Forgiveness is widely misunderstood as a gift to the person who wronged you. More often it is a decision about what you will keep carrying.\...
Memory is not a museum; it is a conversation. The past is not asking you to reproduce it. It is asking you to carry what it taught and leave...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
The body remembers what the mind has filed away — the season, the room, the particular grey of that afternoon. Grief is not an event. It is a tenant. You learn its footsteps and go on living in the same house.