“We must be rooted in the absence of a place. We must take the feeling of home into exile.” Simone Weil Growing up, underlying all the awkwardness and feelings of not belonging despite my outward successes and what most people thought, I knew I would leave home and not return. Deep within me, though, I […]
“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.” Dr. Seuss Language is never the word itself, but the nuanced meaning we share. Language has a boundary defined by history, culture,
“OK, writers. Two minutes.” AAUGH! Two minutes to write six words describing my life scared me into certain galvanic skin responses so well-developed during my school years – shortness of breath, no breath, rapid heartbeat, uh—-oh butterflies. Why didn’t someone tell me writer’s groups gave pop quizzes? I sat. I thought. I sat and thought.
I never met Emily Brown Kocis but I know her. I know her as God allows me to know his truth, and in its light, her light, God’s light through her, I am changed. All who knew her are changed. Emily was diagnosed with peritoneal mesothelioma, a rare cancer. She was a daughter, a sister,
