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Ellie G's avatar

So sorry for your loss

Jodi Ettenberg's avatar

Thank you so much 💛

Christina Heiser's avatar

I'm sorry for your loss, Jodi!

Jodi Ettenberg's avatar

Thank you Christina 💚

Vefa Kucukboyaci's avatar

Dr. Fejzo and her research was featured in an episode of the Unexplainable podcast last year. It was a very interesting topic but was also sad to hear of all the difficulties she had had for securing funding for her research:

https://www.vox.com/unexplainable/417646/pregnancy-morning-sickness-nausea-nih-health-mothers

Jodi Ettenberg's avatar

It isn't surprising that she couldn't secure funding, but it remains very depressing. Thank you for sharing, I look forward to listening.

NAOMI DUGUID's avatar

So rich Jodi. Fab art too ☀️🧡🧡

Jodi Ettenberg's avatar

It’s so evocative!

allie's avatar

jodi, i am so sorry about deborah. thank you for sharing. xxx

Jodi Ettenberg's avatar

Thank you 🤍

Sarah Erwin's avatar

There is a strange grief in realizing

you survived versions of yourself

you were certain would last forever.

Not only the young ones.

The strong ones.

The useful ones.

The beautiful ones.

The needed ones.

We speak often about becoming,

but not enough about all the selves

that quietly die

to make room for it.

And sometimes aging is not the tragedy people think it is.

Sometimes it is finally laying down

the performance.

Sometimes it is no longer confusing exhaustion

for virtue.

Sometimes it is learning that tenderness

was never weakness,

only something the frightened mocked

because they did not know how to carry it.

There are years

that hollow a person.

And years

that return them to themselves.

May you find the best of your stepmother within you each day.

The gestures.

The warmth.

The steadiness.

The love that shaped you quietly

in ways time only reveals later.