translucent / anti-microbial / guardian
Hello friends —
At a certain point — maybe even at the starting point — loss becomes the norm. Purging, shedding, dying. Do we ever get better at it? What does getting better at losing mean?
Have yourself a ponder on loss and love in each of these new works:
1 – My dear friend Lauri Maerov’s story THE BROKE SIDE OF AUSTIN takes you on a trailer park adventure just like the one that broke your heart.
2 – Jeri Edwards’ poetry chapbook THIS PLACE OF WANTING NOTHING contains searing meditations on relationships and the natural world.
3 – Shadowy self-portraitist Carl Peel has a devastating story in Lit Angels #30: THE CLOSING OF THE JOSHUA TREE CAFE. (You may need to be a Substacker to access.)
4 – My own THE REAL SAMARITAN JONES is about a dental assistant who auditions a new love interest to scale up her nomadic #vanlife life.
If you think there are a lot of words contained in those links up there, you are absolutely right. Might even last you all summer.
Before closing, I’d like to honor someone whose words, wit and teaching have shaped the writing lives of Lauri, Jeri, Carl, me, and many, many others. Cathy Colman was an anti-war protestor at UC Berkeley in the ’60s, a prize-winning poet, an inspirational and challenging mentor, and a dear, dear friend whose laugh always made me want to make her laugh more. I miss her more than words.
Hope you get to lose yourself somewhere nice, sometime soon, with someone you love.
Totally,
Tracy
