Decorating Absence
I recently read in a YA novel (don't judge) that "you can decorate absence however you want- but you're still gonna feel what’s missing.”* It caused me pause. In part, because of ideas that were ruminating all summer about what I wanted my work to convey, what I needed it to be, and a tearful conversation that bubbled over between myself and two professors that I greatly admire. Good tears. Meaningful and relevant tears about a real loss and absence I was feeling as a resul
