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Tom Ciorciari's avatar

Something happened. Something hard. Something painful. I knew it when you posted last week about your regrets; your dedication to never steeping foot on a stage again (at least that’s how it read to me). I’m sorry. Whatever it was that happened, I’m sorry, man. Your pain was palpable. I could feel it burning in your words, literally, radiating off my iPhone. And now today. Yeah. Something happened. And I’m sorry you’re going through this. I hope your writing about it serves as a therapeutic purge of sorts. Sometimes bad shit loses some of its sting when we speak it aloud. When we write it out and send it out into the world. I’m hoping that for you, brother.

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Ed Callan's avatar

"And so it goes and so it went. People break themselves open in the name of love but sometimes that’s not enough. Sometimes the adages and platitudes lose their meaning. The passing days bring ugly moments, scarred memories. Starlings congregate in the trees along the park, singing loudly, flicking their heads this way and then that way, and all the while you are texting back and forth with your flesh and blood/ arguing your point/ trying so hard to explain your pain even when you don’t have the words. Not even one of the words. Because, as it turns out, they don’t make words for that level of hurt. " Powerful words. Keep writing.

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