2025 - Quarter One
"... she was already starting to forget the feeling. It was like trying to fall back asleep to dream the rest of a promising dream." - Steph Cha
Less than two hours into the new year my mother-in-law passed away. Having known her since I was barely 14 years-old, it felt more than simply saying, “My in-law died” (not trying to minimize in-law relationships in any way). A profound person in my life is now absent from it; a brick in the building blocks of my life has been removed and it can’t be replaced. It’s an absence that has carried a weight; one that has not been easy to lift or carry, but one that has been borne all the same. Sometimes the grief feels weightless. Others, as if it has serrated teeth.
She loved taking pictures and she loved the pictures I took. It would kill her to think my creativity would be or has been affected in any way because of her.
So… I’ll keep looking through the viewfinder and searching for the beauty in the world.
Because there’s goddamn so much of it.
And so much life to live.
