by JAC | Aug 24, 2012 | Dear Audrey, Uncategorized
Today I started packing- and it felt…surprisingly- nice. I was at that point before you move where I knew I had a move out date, but it still felt completely unreal that I was actually going to pack up everything I own in the next week and move. To...
by JAC | Aug 23, 2012 | Dear Audrey, Uncategorized
Resignation. This is the word that plods in my head the past three or four days as I try to help Audrey recover from fever and her first ear infection, and as we head down to the beach with my parents for a few nights. I am anxious and uneasy because she...
by JAC | Aug 5, 2012 | Dear Audrey, Uncategorized
I’ll leave behind the constant view out our windows- the one you said looked like the scene of an Indie movie while the opening credits were playing. I’ll leave behind the scene of Audrey’s first crawl, first steps, jump, and many attempts at...
by JAC | Jul 30, 2012 | Dear Audrey, Uncategorized
Yesterday was a darker day than most, but the thought of writing about it- trying to capture the complex kind of darkness- is overwhelming. Words will fail…words will fail- the stream of consciousness speed of light kind of pain says over and over as...
by JAC | Jul 24, 2012 | Dear Audrey, Uncategorized
Today is the day you were to come home.It was up on the wall.It was a Friday.Two years ago.Every day now is the day you don’t come home.But this date will always be marked and felt to be lived in the umbra.
by JAC | Jul 18, 2012 | Dear Audrey, Uncategorized
I always had an affinity for the number eight. When I was two or three in dance classes in a young teacher’s garage I believe- she would often have us guess a number and in that way auction off her old jewelry. The day I guessed the number eight, I...
