Healing

Griev­ing the Loss of My Moth­er and Uncle I have been try­ing to come to terms with this real­i­ty, now five years past and yet ever present in mem­o­ry. She and her broth­er, my uncle, died sud­den­ly in a high­way auto­mo­bile acci­dent one Decem­ber evening, and to this day we still do not clear­ly know what tran­spired exact­ly. The day after the acci­dent, I col­lect­ed my mother’s purse from the police offi­cer who was at the scene. Small shards of wind­shield glass were wedged in the crevices. Held up to the set­ting sun, they caught the sun­light in a dis­play that was simultaneously …

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