Unmissing

by Minka Kent

It wasn’t until I lost my daughter and my husband in the same year that I decided to start living my truth. We should all get a chance to live before we die, yes?”

I’m a project. Someone to save. But I learned long ago that the only person who can

And I spent a lot of years hating her for it—wishing she could be a quote-unquote normal mother. Only now, I realize there’s no such thing. Only people trying their best at an impossible job.”

I realized then that it didn’t matter how strong a person was, how resistant they were to criticism and judgment—life could still wear a person down if they weren’t in their own driver’s seat.

the human memory has nothing to do with facts and everything to do with emotion.