Close to Earth, Unbearably Light

On the Precipice of 2021

She was 37 when she died. An artist, one of my best friends, and a person who indelibly marked everyone who ever met her.

Her death came unexpectedly. One day she was here, and the next she was not. A vessel in her beautiful mind exploded, and all at once, it was over.

In recent days, at the end of 2020, she was all around me, even though she’s been gone…