Fan the flames of your curiosity about culture, history, social issues, and more with great writers and thinkers. Podcast hosted by Blair Hodges @lifeonaplate.
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ALT What if joy is not only entangled with pain, or suffering, or sorrow, but is also what emerges from how we care for each other through those things? Ross Gay on Fireside with Blair Hodges
ALT One of the wonders of poetry is that it can slow us down enough to raise the question of, like, hey, what is this thing we call time? Ross Gay on Fireside with Blair Hodges
ALT Page photo which includes this excerpt: To that end I would like to offer a working definition of grief, which in all likelihood I've cribbed from someone else, and to whom, wherever you are, I offer a hearty thanks: grief is the metabolization of change. Perhaps it's for this reason that the bodies of the grieving so often actually transform in the process of grieving losing or gaining weight, suddenly 27 For those of you perhaps withdrawing or cringing at my apparently flippant language to describe what is more clinically and, the thinking goes, generously called mental illness, I understand your concern, though it's not exactly mine, given as my suggestion here is that pretty much none of us, despite appearances, has what the literature might call a normative mind. We're
