THIS WEEK'S GRACE NOTES

When Everything Feels Like It’s Falling Apart

There are times when it feels as though nothing is holding, when even the things you thought you could rely on begin to shift, and you are left wondering what, if anything, is still reliable under your feet.

Not just in your own life, either, but in the world itself.

The news keeps coming, one story layered on top of the next, until it begins to feel less like information and more like a steady background pressure you are meant to absorb and carry. Systems you once trusted now reveal their fragility. Relationships wobble under the weight of change and differing opinions. Bodies shift in ways you did not ask for or expect. And a future that once felt reasonably predictable now feels uncertain.

Questions arise that refuse to go away: