Power

Earlier this year, I found out that a former partner passed away…followed only a couple weeks later by the loss of a close friend. And all of this was mere months after the abrupt ending of my nearly four-year relationship with my most recent ex, the disentangling of our lives, the confusion about what’s next.

To say I’ve been going through it would be an understatement.

I’d lay down and not be able to get up for days; I had no appetite; I was sick to my stomach to the point that I could hardly keep water down; I’m still catching up on the work I couldn’t focus on. But, still, I was thinking about clothes.

Not, like, my outfits—that would be weird. Clothes as a concept. Clothing as a tool for healing. Clothing as a means of reclaiming—or, unfortunately, relinquishing—power.