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Introducing The Joy Menu, a narrative newsletter exploring death, loss, grief, art, and creativity.
Aug 30, 2020 • 
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78–The only home I’d known.
Somehow, when my father died, I also lost our past.
Jun 4 • 
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77–A man both living and dying.
His tumor is a root system pared back. His mood blows in the breeze, swinging back and forth.
May 28 • 
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The Joy Menu #46: Permission
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The Joy Menu #51: Drop
Oct 10, 2021 • Joey Rubin
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The Joy Menu #66: Lack
May 1, 2022 • Joey Rubin
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The Joy Menu #69: Unknowability
Jul 5, 2022 • Joey Rubin
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71–This project, recalibrated.
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76–A last Thanksgiving at home.
Driving in, I had the thought: "how many more Thanksgivings will we spend like this, a family together in our family home?"
May 22 • 
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75–On the Rue de Rome.
His letters pull me from the sea like a line from a fishing pole: there’s a wrenching, a pulling back, a removal from the comfortable, from home, from…
Feb 26 • 
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74–It feels as if you are a time traveler.
But the writer is also him, a him he did know, later; when you were 17, heading into the world, leaving for college, he had this writer inside of him…
Feb 12 • 
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73–From a futon in France.
But it also eats away at a more core belief around who I am, and how this project negates or reaffirms my identity: if I truly were a writer, then I…
Jan 29 • 
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72–A preface, in the middle of things.
What matters is, I tucked them away; aware of their power but not of what they were. Honored, confused, horrified, excited.
Jan 15 • 
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71–This project, recalibrated.
#71. And in writing about this grief – grief for him, and grief for myself as an artist – I renovated my relationship to art.
Jan 1 • 
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The Joy Menu #70: Pain
And at every juncture, each time I saw a doctor or a specialist or a nurse or a phlebotomist, they’d ask “And the pain?”
Sep 11, 2022 • 
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