[Image description: a long comic drawn with colored pencils, each panel occupies the full width of t

[Image description: a long comic drawn with colored pencils, each panel occupies the full width of the image. A close up of a pot of soup on a gas range, the colors are under-saturated. A person with ginger hair and pale, ruddy skin lifts a spoon of soup to their mouth. A woman rolls out dough with a pot of soup boiling in the background. She smiles at the viewer with a hand outstretched towards us. Another woman, much older with white hair, looks away from the viewer as she serves a bowl of soup. The person who had been tasting the soup cries, the colors in their face and hair much more vibrantly orange and red and yellow. Text at the very bottom reads: Give it time to digest. /end image description]

Sometimes happy memories bring out grief. I’m learning to nurture myself.