jedidiah jenkins

winter solstice, there is a moment where the whole earth shifts, the planet turning its North Pole back toward the sun. We cannot feel this, but many of the biggest changes—in nature, in life—go unnoticed. They happen without the moment ever being named.

What if I got what I wanted, and Mom renounced her evangelical interpretation of the Bible? What if she said, “I’ve been deceived,” and woke up into the mystic confusion of a world without God? Would I be happy? I would be sad. My mother’s certainty is her strength. To see her weak and confused would devastate me. There is a reason existential

We’re both returning to the site of something that shifted our lives. The end of her great adventure. The beginning of mine.