In 2023, I went with “magical thinking” for my word/s of the year. In Joan Didion’s book The Year of Magical Thinking, it took magical thinking, a big feat of human imagination and reinvention, to go through her seasons of grief after the untimely loss of both her husband and her daughter.
(When is it ever the right time to experience loss when by it’s …
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