grieving in grey

I'm really behind on posting outfits. This is the first outfit I wore after our cat, Jade, died . The first week without her proved to be difficult in so many ways. I don't really want to dwell on all of the details, but rather talk about one unexpected difficulty: getting dressed. When it came time to put on my teacher clothes for the first time after Jade died, I broke down. I can't tell you how many times I would find her in/on/under my clothes in the past. But she wasn't there. And she never would be again. I must have changed my outfit ten different times that morning, each time, throwing a fit. It felt wrong to try to look put together, as if I was trying to...