Every Sunday, she sorts her week into pastel compartments, Monday through Sunday snapping shut like small promises. The pills don’t cure her, not really. They soften the edges, blur the sharpness of mornings that arrive too loud. Her daughter watches, curious, asking if they’re candy. She laughs, says no but doesn’t explain how each capsule carries a different version of her, one that can get out of bed, one that remembers to eat, one that doesn’t cry in grocery store aisles. By Thursday, she forgets a dose. The day frays. Still, she resets Sunday, faithful as ritual.

Toya L. Walker (she/her) is a writer, educator, and regenerative urban gardener whose work explores memory, healing, ancestry, and the quiet resilience woven into everyday life. Her storytelling is rooted in cultural traditions and lived experience, often bridging the personal and ecological. She has presented on native plants and regenerative gardening and continues to cultivate both land and language through her work with OrganicallyGrownQueen.

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