It& #39;s the small things—the 0.5mg things. The last pill bottle that& #39;ll have my dead psychiatrist& #39;s name on it is empty. I forgot to save the last pill and open the new bottle with the new prescriber& #39;s name: the unfamiliar name, the untrusted name, the unwanted name—the new name.
Call this morning re new psychiatrist:

"I am—I mean, I was one of his patients."

I& #39;m bad at phone conversations when I& #39;m not talking about someone who doesn& #39;t exist. I don& #39;t know how to talk about him. I& #39;ve always had a (verb) tense relationship with loss.
"Why tweet about this? Work through it in a journal."

I dunno. I guess I just want future digital archaeologists to know how much he meant to me. I was here, and so was he, and that mattered.
I think that, at least for now, I& #39;m only going to reply to this thread. Even if something feels unrelated, it& #39;s not. I& #39;m experiencing everything beneath the surface of Loss.

More foxgloves in my garden this spring. More food for bumble bees. Life goes on despite life going on.
I have a recording of our last conversation. I recorded it because I was being overwhelmed by medical information and needed records of who/what/when/where. It& #39;s a good conversation. Neither of us knows that we& #39;ll never have another one. Maybe it should always be like that.
There& #39;s no name for a ring of dead tadpoles at the center of black mud left behind by an evaporated pond.

Something like "tadpole halo", maybe.
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In 10-15 years, YA novels will be written by authors who were traumatized by the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic when they were children. People will criticize the similar themes and "lack of originality" instead of considering the novels as expressions of shared trauma/grief.
Returning to the subject of this thread.

Returning to the subject who isn& #39;t returning.

I& #39;m cold tonight—a side effect of vaccination.

It& #39;s hard for me to stay warm—a side effect of August.

I feel closer to you when I feel closer to August. I can hear your warm voice tonight.
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