Let Go and Let Flow

Grappling with loss of control

Jackie Olsen
Published in
4 min readAug 9, 2022

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Seeds in a pod on green background
Photo by Sandy Millar on Unsplash

Change means loss

Being alive means you deal with loss.

There are losses, large and small, that happen because time passes. Things change. From one moment to the next the world reconfigures itself, transforming itself, in a constant flow of permutations.

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Jackie Olsen
The Orange Journal

Come for the insights on aging, leave with a doggie bag full of frogs and exoplanets. Now more poems about vacuuming! she/her/hers