Dear friends of the direct address, friends of this form I’ve come and gone from. I have exciting news to share! I’ve started something new! But more on that later. This is a short dispatch, probably my last for the next long while, probably ever if I am being honest. I’ve been reminiscing about the newsletterContinue reading “∞ : hello, goodbye, some news”
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13: The Addressal and the Confessional
It’s been a year since my last letter and I wondered if it’d be my last. I tried to start one at the beginning of this year and it just wasn’t right. I wanted time away, time away from this form, this direct address. That’s what I said about newsletters to my friend Harry theContinue reading “13: The Addressal and the Confessional”
05: The Vigil and the Tree
My friend Sara once posted this graphic on Instagram that read, You haven’t met all the people who will love you yet. I thought about this a lot. I liked the statement, I think, because it left all three particles of the sentence—the you and the people and the love—to the power of the yet.Continue reading “05: The Vigil and the Tree”
01: In This Season of Grief (Again) (Always)
At a dinner with Faith and Terry at least four years ago—(a dinner I think about a lot for a lot of reasons) (do you have one of those?)—we started talking about cookbooks. And how cookbooks use food to talk about everything except food, which is usually a story of the person’s life. “Have youContinue reading “01: In This Season of Grief (Again) (Always)”
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