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writing grief, grieving writing; or, a life in 100 emails.
By Joey Rubin · Launched 2 years ago
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The Joy Menu #67: Home
“Hey boychik,” the refined voice on the other side of the world says. “How’s school? How’s soccer? How’s the cello?”
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The Joy Menu #66: Lack
Perhaps there was comfort in the constriction, a perverse safety in the pressure. Perhaps the door served as a weighted blanket – protection from failure, from fear.
May 1
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What comes from grief?
Introducing The Joy Menu, a narrative newsletter exploring death, loss, grief, art, and creativity.
Aug 30, 2020
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The Joy Menu #65: Movies
That was the drug, I think. That liminality, that escape, that floating, etherial disconnection — or re-connection. I wonder: how many lives did he live this way through film?
Apr 24
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The Joy Menu #46: Permission
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The Joy Menu #61: Tale
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The Joy Menu #29: Sleep
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The Joy Menu #64: Tears
Tears, too, like any precipitation, find their way out of one sea and into another. It all gets washed away.
Apr 10
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The Joy Menu #63: Stones
This is a memory. But it is also a thousand memories. It can be repeated so many times, only the fruit changes, the game we play, the location where we…
Mar 14
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The Joy Menu #62: Looking
Somewhere, a dog barks. Another responds. Chickens, twenty yards to the right, shake and pluck and cluck in their open pen. Or maybe I’ve just added…
Feb 27
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The Joy Menu #61: Tale
If he had lived a fabulously long life, my grandfather would have turned 95 fifteen days later.
Feb 21
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The Joy Menu #60: Yell
But there is also a masculinity of fear. There is also a masculinity of curdled intimacy.
Feb 14
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The Joy Menu #59: Breath
My beloved, horrendous asthma—granting me access to him, to his attention, to his tenderness, his softest love.
Feb 6
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The Joy Menu #58: Shadow
Maybe it’s here that I attach mythology to his life as an artist — a counterpoint to this tension, to this heaviness, to the darkness which blows in…
Jan 10
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The Joy Menu #57: Pause
This energy: contemplation, concentration, creation. Yesterday, your tender touch. Today, these words which reach out like fingertips and offer another…
Dec 19, 2021
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