This Impossible Brightness

by Jessica Bryant Klagmann

All the dark, unfathomable distance between one human and the next—and the possibilities that existed in that space.

It was a good place to be sad, and sadness was what she’d expected. She settled in, let it roll into her like ocean waves into an empty shell, soaking her heart in salt water that burned and soothed all at once.

Being told she was too sensitive since she was a child had certainly left the impression that something was wrong with her,

From my foul mouthed loud mother