Many people have noticed that it’s their body—their physical reactions and sensations—that alert them to an emotionally heavy date on the calendar. You might not consciously know today is the seventeenth of the month, but you’ve been more exhausted and rather sick to your stomach all day. It’s only when you look at the calendar that you recognize it: the seventeenth is when he entered hospice, or when you got the first phone call that she was missing. The body remembers. The body knows.
