He Thought I Would Make A Scene At Two In The Morning Until Everything Changed

was the self I had neglected choosing to matter in a moment that required mattering.

Proof first. Emotion later.

Facts first. Stabilization.

I applied to myself the same standard I had spent years applying to other people’s crises, and it held.

One morning in June, I was at the kitchen table with my second cup of tea and the window open, because the morning continue reading …