Reading When Breath Becomes Air for Dying Well, a course in my ALM at Harvard taught by @jasonsilverstein.bsky.social. Kalanithi’s turn from surgeon to patient leaves the question unavoidable: is identity what we build or what remains when everything collapses? #AnatomyOfAState

All great cities are alike; but every city is merciless in its own way.

#FieldNotes #skyline #sp #sampa #saopaulo

My mother exists only backward now, never forward. I try to carry her into each new day, but she comes as a memory, a feeling, sometimes a photograph. I exist now. She doesn’t.

#grief #thatsgrief #MotherLoss #LifeAfterLoss

This isn’t the grief of collapse. It’s the grief woven into the fabric of a good-enough marriage.
The missed paths, the quiet repetitions, the life that becomes yours by staying.
Dept. of Speculation sees it clearly.

#Books #BookSky #amreading