Four bracelets in a cloth pouch - > blue, pink, green, grey.Passed from wrist to wrist, carrying a mother’s touch, a family’s pulse.

In this episode, I share a small ritual my family and I have created with Queenie, as she moves through palliative care. The beads remind us how fragile and how strong a circle can be, stretching, holding, always one tug from breaking.

This is my little story about connection, and the way simple objects can hold whole lives inside them. And the one on my wrist today.

These beads are ours, but maybe you have your own version, a photograph taped to the fridge, a mug no one else is allowed to use, a story that’s told again and again?? What’s the thing that circles through your family, keeping you together?

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