“Her head”—Jill made a wide oh with her arms—“fit like this.” She breathed as if to fill her nostrils with the musk of fur and sighed like a purr. I liked picturing her cradling the limp head of a 500-pound black bear.
“I think it’s only now—sharing this with you—that I can lift the lid off the pot. Maybe we can make sense of what’s come loose together.” This is such a beautiful chapter Holly. I felt like I walked both those paths with you, lingering on details of the past that keep us tethered to what if… And the offering of lightness to that young woman, a wisdom only gained through the hard hand of time.
I loved the parenthesis that was sparked by "You want kids?" And especially the end of that passage: "wasn’t it inevitable that him calling me to that course would feel like him stepping between me and her?" Beautiful writing, Holly.
"Because isn’t it just like life to be undone by ants while looking out for bears?" I love that, among so many other turns of phrase, and just sparkling clear images of you by the lake, the bears, the people, the melancholy and the humor - all of it. Great episode, my dear. 💜
“I think it’s only now—sharing this with you—that I can lift the lid off the pot. Maybe we can make sense of what’s come loose together.” This is such a beautiful chapter Holly. I felt like I walked both those paths with you, lingering on details of the past that keep us tethered to what if… And the offering of lightness to that young woman, a wisdom only gained through the hard hand of time.
Yes, this!: Because isn’t it just like life to be undone by ants while looking out for bears?
Love your writing. All of it.
I loved the parenthesis that was sparked by "You want kids?" And especially the end of that passage: "wasn’t it inevitable that him calling me to that course would feel like him stepping between me and her?" Beautiful writing, Holly.
This line: "It occurs to me now to think of the girl memorizing the face of her infant in a hospital bed."
heart, heart, heart!
"Because isn’t it just like life to be undone by ants while looking out for bears?" I love that, among so many other turns of phrase, and just sparkling clear images of you by the lake, the bears, the people, the melancholy and the humor - all of it. Great episode, my dear. 💜