A Stone for Rachel

And the journey to deliver it

Photo by Colton Sturgeon on Unsplash

Rachel took her life nine days ago. On Monday, I walked to her apartment. I wasn’t quite sure what I would do there. I had a vague notion of wanting to clip a branch from one of the succulents on her front porch, to memorialize her somehow.

Around the corner from my house, a smooth, shiny, black stone presented itself to me in the middle of the street…