How We Bear the Unbearable

and find our invincible Summer

Last week, I came across a Hemingway quote that struck me like a truth I hadn’t put into words before:

“You’re so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”

It was how I’ve been feeling for the past eighteen months.

I have been so brave and quiet that people around me—those far away but still connected and even those close by—seem to forget that I’m in pain.