Opal Palmer Adisa, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/opal-palmer-adisa/ A Home for Black Women Writers Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:11:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://i0.wp.com/www.midnightandindigo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-file.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Opal Palmer Adisa, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/opal-palmer-adisa/ 32 32 153713158 The Grammar of Loneliness https://www.midnightandindigo.com/grammar-of-loneliness/ Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:11:22 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=81589 I am seventy years old. Seventy. The number itself feels solid, a hard-back bounded volume, yellow with age, storied with other out-dated volumes, seldom requested by researchers. And while seventy is not ancient—I have every intention of living into my nineties, maybe even beyond, as almost all my family members have—it is a threshold for which I am not prepared. Like really…when did it happen? How have I arrived here? One moment I was fifty, still sprightly, still raising children, still leaning into desire and possibility. Then I was sixty, and I thought, Yes, this is good, I can hold

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