Endpaper

Eight

early 17th century (in the sense ‘adequate sea room’): probably from a nautical use of bear + -th.
— New Oxford American

Eight days since she passed and obsession today is whether the French Broad riverside funeral home relocated deceased in response to developing forecasts. A pointless anxiety, but fixed in mind nonetheless. One email so far from brother on the scene who expected to fly out yesterday leads me to consider perhaps not.

The focus after our father’s death to plan through hers: embroidered Nordic burial dress, Finnish wool designed blanket, Lithuanian knit wool socks, birch whisks… Attempts at dignity after the loss of home and mind with a little for body…

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