2023 - Part One

I promised myself that I would write this year.  Last year, I didn’t know how.  In the wake of more devastation than I have words for, I lost myself for a bit.

I mean, I was still here.  Picking up the pieces of a once-again shattered life, I was here, soldiering on, trying to remember how to breathe.  But at the same time, I’d left.  I had nowhere else to go, but I wasn’t here.

This year, I promised myself that I would write.  There will be fifty-two of these.