This week has felt like walking through a haunted forest after dark. Not the loud kind of haunting. The quiet kind. The kind where everything has already happened, and the air is still holding onto it.
I don’t have a big post for today. No deep dive. No unraveling. Just a small lantern held up in the dark.
The last couple of posts took more out of me than I realized. Writing about grief, about loss, about things that don’t neatly resolve… it lingers. It settles into your bones and makes a home there for a while.
So today, I’m not digging anything up.
I’m just… here.
A little foggy. A little worn down. Moving slower than usual, like something half-seen slipping between trees.
Luna, of course, has appointed herself my official Keeper of Vibes™. She’s been extra glued to my side, keeping watch like a very fluffy cryptid guardian who takes her job extremely seriously (and accepts payment in snacks and forehead kisses).
I’ve been trying to follow her lead. Rest where I can. Be still when I need to. Let things be quiet without forcing meaning out of them.
If you’ve been reading along this week, you might be carrying some of that weight too.
If you are, this is your permission slip to step out of the narrative for a minute. You don’t have to process everything right now. You don’t have to turn it into something tidy or shareable or “productive.” That’s something I’m still learning too.
Sometimes the most honest thing you can do is just exist in the in-between.
Sit with it. Breathe. Let it be unfinished.
If you feel up to it, I’d love to hear how you’re doing this week. Even if the answer is just “still here.”
Because that’s how your ghoul is doing: still here. Even if we’re a little buried under the snow.
— Sky
🐾 Luna’s Official Report: Mom is resting. Vibes are being guarded. No suspicious entities detected (except the mailman, who remains deeply questionable).
© The Crippled Cryptid
Disability. Honesty. A little chaos.
(Maybe a little dog fur.)
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