Tide Horizon

When my mother first mentioned moving out of the house she’d lived in for thirty years, I felt a knot in my stomach. She had always been fiercely independent, and the idea of her leaving that home felt like a loss. But over the course of several months, as we explored the independent living options available in the St Louis area, I realized that what she was really after wasn’t a surrender of her autonomy. She wanted a place where she could still come and go as she pleased,