2023 52 Card Project: Week 22: Fragile

As I said in my last post, my sleep has been insufficient, and that is dragging me down in all sorts of subtle (and not-so-subtle) ways. There is nothing ostensibly wrong with my life (well, aside from the fact that I'm not working enough hours, I'm a widow who misses her husband, I'm in a new and satisfying relationship but finding a way to combine households with my person isn't easy or obvious, I feel increasingly unsafe in my neighborhood, the nature of politics in America, climate doom--you know, all the usual things).

Ordinarily, I just sort of live with these things. But with the drag of not enough sleep, it hasn't been easy, and I am feeling much more fragile than usual this week.

I'm trying not to let myself slide mentally, honest. But I have no margin to spare.

A woman (Sleeping Beauty) in a splendidly embroidered medieval dress reclines in a bed, asleep under a sunny lead-paned window. Foreground, lower left corner: the silhouette of a seated woman in profile. Overlay: a frame of broken glass.

Fragile



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