You Are All a Part of Me

This collection of essays is about people. My people. In the midst of a pandemic, I am even more aware of the importance of my people- and time. There are friends I consider family who live in Europe and I have no idea when I will be allowed to see them again. There is family in the south and I long for their company. There is a biological relation who I will never see again. There are mentors who literally changed my life, and students whose impact never left. There are New Yorkers and Floridians, and there is immeasurable loss. What you get to take with you when you leave this earth is the following: what you did, how you lived, who you loved, who loved you. All the people that made you - for better or worse - who you are. People matter. To me. People matter, and time: the finite time you have with your people, and the finite time they have with you.