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James Galvin
James Galvin

It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer and everything collapses.

| Colette

"It’s like how you know life continues to go on around you when your eyes are closed, or when someone is so far away that you have no idea what they are doing, but you still hope they’re thinking of you at night."

I thought of dhansak and its heavy lake of sauce, and, so, too, the ritual of consuming the stew to break the fast after a loved one’s death—as if only such a rich, torpor-inducing dish could properly stun you and let you expand, freed from the vise of grief. It struck me suddenly that eating it in the midst of sorrow, or diminishment, was an extraordinarily optimistic act. To Jehangir Mehta, food is a way to pull people back from the brink and return them to the important business of life. “We don’t believe in mourning,” he said. “We believe in happiness.” Which is to say: We are still capable of pleasure. We are still here on earth.

| Ligaya Mishan, A Bid to Maintian One …

Angela Hennessey - "I have formed the habit of having death continually present, not nearly in my imagination, but in my MOUTH." - "and its everyday reality.... carrying death in his mouth, in his body, mind, and imagination. What does it mean then to take death into ones mouth, into the place of food, and liquids, that we consume to sustain life??" ...... "What does it mean to kiss someone you love with the knowledge of their death and yours, on your tongue"

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