grief lessons - anne carson

on fathers and grief

bonnie burstow // catherine lacey // @belovedbi / james coates

American Originality: Essays on Poetry

By Louise Glück

I am unfortunately just like other guys. I like trashy horror, dog poems, cannibalism as a metaphor for obsessive devotion, religious imagery, people who use my name in a sentence, academic validation, lying for fun, being bisexual and bleeding out in the snow.

overtures are so sexy like yes introduce me to the themes and motifs before before they show up in the narrative

GOALS FOR 2024

1. HOLD HANDS MORE

2. KEEP YOUR HEART OPEN

3. DON’T BE AFRAID TO CRY WHEN YOU NEED TO

4. DON’T BE AFRAID TO LAUGH WHEN YOU NEED TO

5. LET PEOPLE BE THERE FOR YOU

6. WATCH A SCARY MOVIE FROM 1987

7. KEEP BEING BRAVE

8. ALLOW HOPE YOU FIND YOU AGAIN AND AGAIN

9. BE KIND TO YOUR INNER CHILD

10. FORGIVE YOURSELF AS MANY TIMES AS IT TAKES

11. EAT FOOD THAT NOURISHES YOU BODY & SOUL

12. JOURNAL BEFORE BED

13. DO THINGS SCARED IF YOU MUST. BUT DO THEM.

sara sutterlin

Toni Morrison on grief

“A man once told me that much of my writing was about loss, that that was how I imagined the world, and I thought about that comment for a long time. In that sense of loss two streams mingled. One was the historian’s yearning to hang onto everything, write everything down, to try to keep everything from slipping away, and the historian’s joy in retrieving out of archives and interviews what was almost forgotten, almost out of reach forever. But the other stream is the common experience that too many things are vanishing without replacement in our time. At any given moment the sun is setting someplace on earth, and another day is slipping away largely undocumented as people slide into dreams that will seldom be remembered when they awaken. Only the continuation of abundance makes loss sustainable, makes it natural. There are more sunrises coming, but even dreams could be emptied out.”

— Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost   (via nemophilies)

On grief and loss

1. Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior/ 2. Andrew Garfield interview/ 3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix/ 4. Jamie Anderson/ 5. Fleabag/ 6. Anne Carson, Glass, irony and god / 7. Brokeback Mountain/ 8. Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere/ 9. John Banville, The Sea/ 10. Wandavision

this is the study snoopy. he bestows good fortune to all the students that cross his path this exam season. he believes in you and so do i

me and the mutuals discussing themes and motifs

this comment on a tiktok where theyre crying because their dog isnt gonna live forever slaps

Every single time something has fallen apart in my life, I’ve looked back with gratitude eventually.

I might spend a whole year crying and sleeping and working a part-time job and that’s okay if it’s what I need.

Your body will force you to take a break if you don’t listen to it asking for one. I saw this coming 2 years ago and ignored it. Now I’m 2 years older and realize I just prolonged it.

It’s okay. Really.

is it loneliness or solitude?

Jaakko Pallasvuo / Euripides, tr. by Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripidesm / scarlet. Holly Warburton. / Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem / dog on the hill. Holly Warburton. / Jenny Slate, On Love, Loneliness, & Giant Dogs / evening sketch. Holly Warburton. / Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem.