Chicago writer Lea Grover lost her husband to brain cancer and her sister to Covid during the pandemic.
She talks to Andra about her essay in “The Pandemic Midlife Crisis” from the HerStories Project herstoriesproject.com
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Lea Grover and Andra discuss loss, grieving, parenting, and self-care during the pandemic. She doesn’t focus on the negative, or she wouldn’t be with us. She shares how she endured such monumental loss. The people who showed up. How loved ones cared for her and her daughters. Where humans did little things to help her keep going.
Lea also received one of Andra’s pandemic gratitude lilies, the subject of Andra’s essay in “The Pandemic Midlife Crisis.” Lea reads portions of her essay on the video, and she shares Andra’s gratitude lily live. Happy tears abound. THANK YOU FOR WATCHING.
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About my essay
“A GARDEN OF PANDEMIC GRATITUDE LILIES”
I used origami to fight pandemic depression. My essay recounts how I thanked humans, famous and ordinary. Every day, I penned a letter of thanks, folded it into an origami lily, and mailed it. I hoped to lift a few souls, but I never expected expressions of gratitude to change me. For anyone needing inspiration to tell someone they matter – right now – before it’s too late.
About Me
Andra Watkins is the author of four books. Her memoir Not Without My Father: One Woman’s 444-Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace hit the NYT bestseller list in October 2015. Her well-reviewed Nowhere trilogy targets the fiction lover. She gives rousting keynote speeches and has yet to meet a destination she doesn’t like. GET HER BOOKS HERE.
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“A really brutal reckoning over who and what we’ve become and what we’re willing to do for each other.”
This. It says EVERYTHING. Thank you.
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