By Haley DiRenzo
The astronaut returns to Earth to the same clogged shower drain—her daughter’s hair tangled and braided with her own. When her daughter refuses to eat dinner together, slamming her door in response to the invitation, the astronaut remembers the Earth, suspended in the star-dusted sky through the station window. All the days she stood there wishing to return to the monotony, longing to brush her daughter’s cheek. When her daughter throws tiny details of her life like a bone to a ravenous dog, the astronaut collects them carefully, knowing they are constellations more bright than all the galaxies she knows.
Beautiful piece.
Thank you!
Wonderful and topical. The last sentence brings it all together so well.
Thank you! Yes I am currently crying at all the Artemis II videos and happy this piece gets to live in a world where real astronauts are reminding us of our humanity.
Freakin’ teenagers!
Nice job.
Haha! Thank you for reading
Beautiful! Love it 🙂
Beautiful. You really captured the breadth of a parent’s love.
So much alike of the Indian mothers.