This Beautiful, Terrible Darkness

(Are you OK?)

Are you OK? It seems like things are really dark for you right now.

It has been a dark time, AND I’m also OK... sort of. Not really. I’m healing.

I’ve had this same conversation (or one like it) several times in the last month. I have many wonderful family and friends checking in on me and tending well to me in my recent struggles. Just today I talked wit…