I don’t know how many people who read me or who I read and interact with will see this, but I am really grateful for the supportive community that has shown itself here over the past few months. I’ve been leaning on my newsletter quite a lot as I have navigated the death of both my parents since January. I haven’t published much about this specifically, although I have written. The nightmare of ER visits and caring for my mom in hospice, and the heartbreak and the awful logistics that comes with these things. To escape into a book, to write a review, to share an essay that I’ve shined up, to hear kind words about it, to read other people’s work, often while at a bedside or in the middle of the night when I can’t sleep, this has provided an escape. It’s strange, maybe, but it has helped. To have something manageable to do, to feel comforted and useful, at least in some small way. Thank you to the lovely people on here for being lovely 💜