I Went to Visit My Sister After She Gave Birth — Then I Heard My Husband’s Voice in the Hallway

about me and what I actually was, I had built a case that held.

I closed my laptop and looked at the harbor.

The water was doing what water does — moving, catching light, entirely indifferent to the various things happening along its edges. I had always found this quality in water restoring rather than humbling. The world moves, and the motion is not continue reading …