From Here to the Great Unknown

by Lisa Marie Presley

To me she was the most beautiful woman in the world.

My mother was an incredibly complicated person and deeply misunderstood.

FELT

The whole place smells like the South, especially in the summertime. There is soft summer air and fireflies at night.

For the world when seen through a little girl’s eyes Greatly resembles Paradise.

I started to call someone to help me remember it, but realized that there’s no one left to call.

Oh my god gut punch

So I’d just stare at that book, wanting to live in the pictures somehow.

Looking back, there was really only one thing I was sure of: that I was loved by my dad.

And in his casket, I’d quietly placed those yellow Nike sneakers he’d envied when we’d been so happy in Japan.

Typing through tears rn

We talked about existence and loss and love and their deeper meanings. It was a singular period in which we all felt strongly that we were connecting to something bigger than ourselves.

This was a huge lesson for me—the only way out is through. You must allow pain in to free yourself from it.