I See You, Caregiver

Tracey Paradiso
7 min readFeb 3, 2023
An arm extended from a boat, the hand reaching toward its reflection in the water.

This is not a shoutout, but rather, a whisper of encouragement to anyone who has been caring for a loved one for a long time.

It is a message slipping into your hands from a bottle I cast into the sea near a shore for caregivers, those who don’t have time or energy to write an SOS in the sand.

This is the “Thinking of You” note you never expected as you mindfully (and likely unwittingly) sacrifice…

--

--

Tracey Paradiso

Words are my lifeblood. Curiosity is my jam. Writing is real world magic on this side of the soil, and a spell for legacy when the body re-loams. Evercasting.