That Feeling

S.I. Rosenbaum has a comic out in Flaming Hydra—“Lost and found”—that captures something of how this moment feels to me, too. I mean, I haven’t expatriated to Lisbon, I’m not married to a trans person, I don’t find myself compulsively looking for beads—and yet, I know that feeling of life passing, atrocities ongoing, and the mind trying to find meaning, trying to find mooring. It’s a beautiful piece.

A three-panel comic. In the first panel one character is giving the other a backrub. The character receiving the backrub is saying "I want to go home." The text reads "5,000 years ago a child was buried with 2,600 beads of hematite, shell and turquoise." The second panel, the two characters are laying in bed with one staring up at the ceiling, not asleep. A cat curls around their head. The text reads "30,000 years ago a man was buried with 3,000 beads of mammoth ivory and fox teeth." The third panel zooms in on the character, who has closed their eyes but looks disturbed. The text reads, "Where were they carrying those beads?"

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