All Souls Day
A short piece on ancestors and migraines for All Souls Day.
I spent Halloween on the floor of my TV room, a pose I frequently find myself in when I am experiencing a migraine attack. I am on my floor frequently, swaddled in blankets and half-listening, half-watching, something on television while I urge my nervous system to settle.
Earlier in the day, before the mists of migraine descended, my hands were in a riv…
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