Tag: illness
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The transitional space: we’re all in it
by Jay Hiller, November 10, 2022 Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash About a year ago, I read this book by George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo, without ever understanding what a bardo is. It wasn’t until I heard the author on a fiction podcast that I understood that a bardo is a transitional space.…
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Strong A.F. is a relative term
by Jay Hiller, August 20, 2022 Last year, one of my friends went through three serious health crises, one after the other. One day I was sitting with her in her front room. She was collecting herself to walk the length of her front hallway, about 4 yards. This was extremely demanding for her physically…