Category: Night Thoughts

The night is dark and tender, charcoal and purple, a quiet canvas stretched wide across the sky, where pinpricks of light twinkle and gleam in the black velvet expanse, distant and steady. The warm weight of a little head rests on my lap, growing heavier by the minute, surrendering slowly to sleep. Lashes droop and…

There’s something soft about the night, where the dark is like an embrace that tells you it’s all going to be fine, that gentles your pain and blunts the sharp edge of grief, not by taking it away, but by holding it just lightly enough that you can breathe again. The world recedes a little…

The parenting journey is full of sleepless nights and exhausting days; autism parenting, much more so. These sleepless nights, though, sometimes bring a kind of clarity that gets lost in the noise and rush of the day, when you are moving from one task to another, solving, managing, responding, without pause. Krishna has been merrily…