Three Things About Elsie

by Joanna Cannon

Perhaps there are times when your life is so unbearably miserable, but the only part of you that can run away from it and leave, is your mind.

It makes you wonder if you did have a purpose, but it floated past you one day, and you just didn’t think to flag it down.

sometimes life takes you along a path you only intended to glance down on your way to somewhere else,

It’s the kind of name you give to these places, though. Woodlands, Oak Court, Pine Lodge. They’re often named after trees, for some reason. It’s the same with mental health units. Forests full of forgotten people, waiting to be found again.