Commentary: What elephant seals taught me about parenting my adult son with psychosis
by Tanya Frank, Los Angeles Times
Mar 14, 2023
3 minutes
The ranger directed me to New Year’s Creek Beach for my shift as a docent naturalist at Año Nuevo, a state park in Northern California. It was winter of 2018 and an injured elephant seal had hauled in. He lay amid the driftwood littering the sand after the previous night’s storm. A patch of silvery-black skin on his back had been bitten clean away by a cookiecutter shark, leaving a deep pink wound that made me shudder.
I looked down at my phone. I had no bars. Nobody could reach
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