#personalessay — Public Fediverse posts
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REVIEW: Sufjan Stevens' Carrie and Lowell, Ten Years Later | 🔗 https://brennan.day/review-sufjan-stevens-carrie-and-lowell-ten-years-later/
#MusicReview #PersonalEssay #MentalHealth #Grief #Family #Suicide #MediaCriticism
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Beeminder: Getting Back on the Horse | 🔗 https://brennan.day/beeminder-getting-back-on-the-horse/
#PersonalEssay #Productivity #HabitTracking #Beeminder #Self-improvement #CommitmentDevices
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It Was Always a Love Story, Actually | 🔗 https://brennan.day/it-was-always-a-love-story-actually/
#PersonalEssay #MediaCriticism #Gender #Love #Television #Anime
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Broken Chair
I rescued the chair from outside someone’s apartment with the hope of fixing it and having it become a welcome member of our family.
But, as often happens, it sat around in various places waiting for me to find the time to repair it.
Finally, I decided it was one more project I did not have time for, and so yesterday I put it out on the sidewalk in the hopes that someone would take it home.
It sat out there all through yesterday in the rain and the sun, lonely, awaiting a new friend. A few people paused to look but then drove away. Periodically I would look out my window to see it still sitting forlornly there.
Then this morning I noticed an older gentleman walking past who began to inspect the chair. He picked it up, put it on his back and walked away.
It is a beautiful chair. It just needs to be repaired, and I am sure its new owner will do just that.
I don’t know about you, but I feel a lot like that broken chair, waiting for the gentle hands of someone to put me back together again.
I wait, broken, with the hope that those hands will touch me, I will be healed, and I can have a purpose again.
July 10, 2015
#beautyInBrokenThings #beingRestored #Brokenness #compassion #everydayParables #FaithAndLife #foundObjects #gentleHands #Grace #Healing #Hope #humanDignity #innerHealing #Loneliness #metaphor #ordinaryGrace #personalEssay #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #Purpose #Redemption #renewal #repair #rescuedChair #restoration #secondChances #sidewalkStory #SpiritualReflection #urbanReflection #Waiting #WordPressTagsBrokenChair #woundedButWorthy #Writing -
REVIEW: Missing 'Missing Richard Simmons' | 🔗 https://brennan.day/review-missing-missing-richard-simmons/
#PersonalEssay #Review #MediaCriticism #SocialCommentary #Privacy #Ethics
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BECOMING A MAN INSIDE A MAN’S BODY — Why I Couldn’t Fit Into Sexual Roles
I lived for a long time between definitions — not wanting labels that didn’t fit, yet not feeling prepared for the roles I was told a man should embody.
This piece is about becoming, not explaining.
About learning to inhabit the self without force or performance.🔗 Article link below
#Masculinity #Identity #SelfDiscovery #InnerWork #Becoming #PersonalEssay #LifeWriting #ConsciousLiving