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The Joy Menu #46: Permission
In the tan armchair beneath the bright front window, I ask: “And then?” “And then?” “And then?”
Joey Rubin
Aug 29, 2021
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The Joy Menu #51: Drop
Not remarkable. No big revelation. No reason, really, to wait for the other shoe.
Joey Rubin
Oct 10, 2021
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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…
Joey Rubin
May 1, 2022
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The Joy Menu #69: Unknowability
“It is forgetfulness that is the fundamental problem, not memory.” — Patrick Modiano
Joey Rubin
Jul 5, 2022
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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.
Joey Rubin
Jan 1
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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.
Joey Rubin
Feb 21, 2022
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The Joy Menu #29: Sleep
Your author trains his eyes on memories of unslept nights.
Joey Rubin
Mar 28, 2021
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The Joy Menu #45: Dialogue
"Much of my childhood was spent interpreting the art on the walls of our home. So to look at it now with him, to ask him what they mean to him, is…
Joey Rubin
Aug 1, 2021
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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…
Joey Rubin
Dec 19, 2021
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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?”
Joey Rubin
May 15, 2022
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The Joy Menu #50: Shreds
Guys do stupid things. A lot of energy in young guys. A lot of stupidity. And then there were some regular guys like me.
Joey Rubin
Oct 3, 2021
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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…
Joey Rubin
Feb 27, 2022
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