The Joy Menu

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The Joy Menu is a newsletter.

Introducing The Joy Menu, a narrative newsletter exploring how creativity helps us live more meaningful lives.

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Joey Rubin
Aug 30, 2020
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The Joy Menu is:

  • an essay cycle masquerading as a newsletter.

  • a newsletter masquerading as a series of Sunday memories.

  • stories about my father masquerading as stories about myself.

  • or viceversa.

  • questions gifted by my father to me about art-making and artist-being.

  • poems without line breaks.

  • transcripts of stories told across three (3) generations and 3 (three) continents.

  • whatever comes out when I sit down to write.

  • just some emails.

In 2018, my father died. He’d been sick for 17 months. When my siblings turned to me and said, “You’re the writer; write the obituary,” I had no idea what to write.

Four years later, I’m still writing.

I hope it makes sense to you—or barring that, makes you cry.

Thanks for reading. I’d be chuffed if you shared it with a friend (or 3).

This is me looking inquisitive in Morocco in 2019.
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