Sublime

I didn’t return texts and I didn’t confirm plans. I forgot about birthdays and I stopped returning calls. I didn’t know how to show up for them: the Nora they had known before was gone, and I didn’t like this version of me enough to show her to anyone who had known and loved those better versions. I assumed that their lives were perfectly fine

Nuland was a renowned surgeon-philosopher whose seminal book about mortality, How We Die, had come out when I was in high school but made it into my hands only in medical school. Few books I had read so directly and wholly

This is your time; we’re in the era of podcasts, of self-publishing, of blogs and social media. You can tweet or use your Instagram account for more intentional and purposeful content.

pain will find us.