In Ascension

by Martin MacInnes

I reasoned that if a message couldn’t reach me, its potential content could never be realised.

i think like this. illogical but comforting.

Helena was taking responsibility for our mother. She was the true older sibling, with a courage and grit I’d never come close to. She didn’t get overwhelmed. She dealt with things, she took responsibility. And I never felt younger, or more inadequate, than when I saw her showing such courage.

true always

A family is a group of strangers with a destructive desire for common nostalgia.