Lyndon
10 min readJan 26, 2020
lighting the mist

Alzheimer’s, A Retrospective: One of the Longest Journeys of Loss

This is a compilation of essays written during the last years of my mother’s life.

~We are in a present moment in which a daughter and a stranger are synonymous.

I. Unexpected

It’s not what I expected. Again. I am relearning this lesson for what seems the thousandth time. How to let go. How to be with what is, as is.

Lyndon

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