There’s so much happening in the world, so much to say.
I’m not going to say any of it. I am, however, going to post this quote from my almost-done-no-really-for-sure-this-time book:
“I don’t think a lot about what comes next. I don’t imagine some sweet reunion with my mother. But I do remember her. A little; you can’t really remember someone with any clarity for very long. But that’s what I take from her death: not the promise of meeting somewhere outside of all this, our souls reunited. What I take is that the past is important. What we make of it is important. What we do, what we control—it’s small, and sometimes unhelpful, but it’s important. When we lose someone—any memorial we make for them can’t be looking back. It can only be looking forward. We’re building the future for the ones who’ll never see it, and we won’t see it either, but none of that matters. Because the here and now is important. It’s everything there is.”
Be kind to each other, here and now. And don’t vote for fascists.
https://lizmonsterwrites.com/2024/10/01/a-brief-interlude/