Spectacular Things

by Beck Dorey-Stein

the capacity to love strikes her as cruelly beautiful. At birth, each person unwittingly signs a contract to say goodbye to everyone they’re about to meet. Life is merciless in that way, in its promise to end.

love and loss live on the same coin. It’s never heads or tails but joy and agony, grief and delight, spinning in the air, waiting on time and luck to determine not when this chapter ends but how the next one begins.

“Being a human is hard, and being a human mother is even harder,”

She will grow up knowing she comes from a line of women who ignored the rules to chase their dreams out of bounds. What good fortune to share our fortune.