A day in the life: reconciling grief and gratitude 17 December 2025

https://rarerevolutionmagazine.com/a-day-in-the-life-reconciling-grief-and-gratitude/ I wake before the sun most days—not because I want to, but because my body decides it’s time. Pain pulls me out of sleep before my mind has even caught up. I stretch carefully, the way you’d handle something fragile and cracked, always wondering if today will be the day a piece of me finally breaks.