louder please

speak up, i can't hear you

one gloomy thought before celebrating

kelly | June 27, 2008

it isn’t father’s day, or his birthday, or the day he died or the funeral or any of those anniversaries that flatten my resistance to the absence of my father. it’s june 21, december 21, and my birthday.
last year it smacked me in the face when my dad didn’t call at 10:50 in the morning [...]