Migraneur turns out to be what you call a person who gets migraines. And a migraine is not “a really bad headache” but a multi-level nervous system collapse that in not limited to head pain (or, as many would insist, to “head nausea”).

I have been learning many things this winter about the intricacies of this affliction, which I share exclusively with other people cursed (and blessed?) with ultra-keen senses and hyper-reactive nervous systems. It’s pretty clear, too, that I’ve had variations on migraine since childhood. And that my dad most likely did, too.

Maybe one day I’ll write about everything I know—from all I’ve experienced as one living with this condition to all I’ve discovered in the course of seeking relief from it. But today I just want to show a collage I didn’t know I had in me, which presented itself during an early evening of collage-making among friends (one I couldn’t confirm I’d attend until the day of owing to all those recent migraines).