If You Read One Thing Today, Let It Be This
a battle with my blood by Tatiana Schlossberg
“For my whole life, I have tried to be good, to be a good student and a good sister and a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never make her upset or angry. Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family’s life, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.” - Tatiana Schlossberg
If you do nothing else today, take a moment and read Tatiana Schlossberg’s essay in The New Yorker
Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, shared that she’s been diagnosed with an aggressive cancer and has been given less than a year to live.
She’s just 34. A mom of two. A brilliant climate journalist who has spent years fighting for a better, safer world. She chose to share her story in The New Yorker on the anniversary of her grandfather’s assassination and it’s absolutely gut-wrenching.
Tatiana has also been one of the strongest voices pushing back against her uncle Robert F. Kennedy Jr., especially as he serves as Trump’s health secretary. She’s shown more integrity, courage, and moral clarity than most people twice her age.
Holding her and her family in so much light today.
As she spent more of her life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers, she watched her cousin Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., cut federal funding for medical treatment and research. “Suddenly, the health-care system on which I relied felt strained, shaky,” Schlossberg writes. Read the full story at the link in our bio. Photograph by Thea Traff
“My first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn’t remember me.”
Read the entire essay here, and share it with your loved ones