Keeping Vigil
Keeping Vigil
At the threshold of the Fire Horse
This piece was written in the slowed time of dying and published at the turning of the year. It traces what happens when clocks stop mattering, when mirrors become witnesses, and when keeping vigil becomes the only meaningful work left. Moving between hospice rooms and hay fields, folklore and neuroscience, agitation and clarity, it asks what it means to stay with someone all the way to the edge—and how to know when staying gives way to letting go.
Keeping Vigil explores end-of-life presence, terminal lucidity, the nervous system’s role in…
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