Notice of absence from Tristan Robert Lange
Life is full of seasons. This is a season of transition for me, where I will be moving with my family to a new location. As such, with much logistics to consider, I am doing my best to keep up. Please know if I accidentally don't respond, it is not because I am ghosting or becoming distant. Once things settle after the move, I am sure life will return to some normalcy. In the meantime, and always:
Read 👓, Write ✍️, Rise 🌅, Realize 🤯.
Tristan 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
Life is full of seasons. This is a season of transition for me, where I will be moving with my family to a new location. As such, with much logistics to consider, I am doing my best to keep up. Please know if I accidentally don't respond, it is not because I am ghosting or becoming distant. Once things settle after the move, I am sure life will return to some normalcy. In the meantime, and always:
Read 👓, Write ✍️, Rise 🌅, Realize 🤯.
Tristan 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
Memory 1
YOUNG BOY: "Mommy, where did grandma go?"
MOTHER: "Um...up there in the blue sky, beyond the dark gray clouds."
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Memory 2: A Poem Fragment
It is snowing out and I am cold,
And what I say you probably won’t hear,
For ever atom in me is frozen,
Right down to the heart.
I’m sitting and freezing to death.
I’m freezing as I sit in discomfort,
Observing the blur of white
That surrounds me.
My face, my blood, they are all frozen solid.
I am now seventeen years old and already in bad health,
Hoping to die sooner than later.
— Poem snippet from Tristan Robert Lange’s poem, Frozen Solid.
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Memory 3:
YOUNG GIRL: "Daddy, why did my fish die?"
FATHER: "Because it's, uh, just the way life is, honey."
YOUNG GIRL: "But, I...I want her alive again."
A long pause.
FATHER: (lets out a resigned sigh) I know you do...I know you do."
Another pause.
Let's just see what we can make happen, shall we
His mother's voice appears in memory to say the following words along with him.
Here, take my hand.
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Ending
YOUNG GIRL: "Look Daddy, look, she's alive again."
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© 2026 Tristan Robert Lange. All rights reserved.
Tittu
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Comments3
Grandma to fish winter to another season the world is a cycle. Wait long enough and it happens again and we call it a miracle. A lovely write my friend deep with meaning
My daughters first pet was a fish.
She was very young and told me the fish jumped out of the tank!
It looked dead, but I told her to pray for it and put it back.
The fish survived.
Moving and powerful. Resonates with me. Well done!
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