I love to knit and if ya didn't know already I love to play guitar and write songs. I used to ride my bike in my cool bike shorts and shirt with all the pockets and music in my ears as I rode down Grant's Trail. Once a year I would do a small triathlon and a few 5k or 10K runs. Especially the Halloween ones where you get all dressed up. I got my best time dressed as a granny in my housecoat running in downtown St Louis! Since I got sick in March 2020, like so many people, my body cannot do what it used to do. After that first year of Long Haulers, I decided that since I can't ride my bike...I was gonna get really good at the guitar.

When you lose something or someone or a part of yourself, it can put you in a place where you don't know what to do. This is when you let yourself grieve and sit with the loss...and you go inside and you meet yourself. You sit by the fire like there's nowhere to go. You fiercely love like you'll live to tell.

It can feel...