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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 #68: Cello
In a way, while the sale was open, while the cello remained unsold, part of my father remained alive. Far from view, over the crest of the horizon, but alive.
Jun 20
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?”
May 15
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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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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…
Apr 24
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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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