They Made Me Wait in the ER While Prioritizing a Wedding Until Everything Started to Unravel

about that. People construct a picture of moments like this one as emotionally satisfying, as a felt sense of balance restored. It was not like that. No rush, no payoff, no sense of scales finally leveling.

What I felt was space.

The particular kind that opens up when something no longer has access to you. When the architecture of your daily life stops continue reading …