What Happened When I Learned to Look Up

Jacqueline Dooley
6 min readSep 9, 2019
Juvenile bald eagle — photo my own

“Once you start looking for signs, they appear in flocks, like so many birds.” — Evan T. Pritchard, Bird Medicine

I’ve been afraid of getting stuck in my grief since my daughter died 2 years ago. I’ve seen it happen to other parents — the untouched bedroom, the overflowing shrines on mantels and tables, the frequently…

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Jacqueline Dooley

Essayist, content writer, bereaved parent. Bylines: Human Parts, GEN, Marker, OneZero, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Pulse, HuffPost, Longreads, Modern Loss