In 2025 my grandmother transitioned into ancestry.
I realized during my time caring for her, that her transition meant my mother was now the Elder in our family. Which, in theory, meant I was the Matriarch.
As the eldest daughter, of an eldest daughter, of an eldest daughter, I had lived with this reality, this identity in the background, but this was the first time I had really felt it.
And I felt woefullly unprepared.