About Atom Seven
Author Reflection
The idea for Atom Seven came to me during the most difficult part of my healing after the death of my husband. At the time, ordinary grief language felt painfully insufficient. Words like sadness and devastation sounded thin and artificial compared to the magnitude of what had happened – like trying to restore the Sistine Chapel with a box of cheap waxy crayons.
Then one evening, while watching a nature documentary, I heard a brief explanation about nitrogen. Specifically, the immense strength of the N₂ covalent bond and the extraordinary power required to break it. Lightning was one of the few forces in nature capable of separating it.
That was the first time my grief made logical sense to me.
We had been a strong bond. Stable. Enduring. Quietly woven together through years of life. And then a force powerful enough to break reality itself struck, and suddenly his nitrogen atom went one way while mine went another.
For a long time afterward, I felt buried in the ground psychologically, emotionally, spiritually. But eventually I began to transform. Looking back now, I realize the emotional logic of my healing followed the same strange arc as the nitrogen cycle itself.
Atom Seven was born from that realization.
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