kira kira
mother. daughter. doctor. writer. explorer.
girl contemplating infinity on a red chair: part 2
grief is not fearAnd then there is the flip side. I no longer live in fear. That is not completely true. I am a parent. I am always a little bit in fear. That is in part what it means to love. There is no love without loss, on one side or the other. We are mortal. But I lived in fear of this day for nine years. For nine years, starting the morning when I was a third-year medical student and my mother called to tell me that my father had heart failure with an ejection fraction of twenty percent, I feared this…kira kira3 min read