Daily Nourishment for March 12, 2024: When Tears Fall with Heather Christle and Catherine Ricketts
Daily Nourishment Read Time: 40 seconds
Pause/Prompt/Practice Time: 10-15 minutes
"Someone says tears, and the noun triggers the expected verb: fall. Always they fall like rain." -- Heather Christle, The Crying Book
Pause.
Set a timer for two minutes and meditate on And Women Must Weep by Rockwell Kent.
Prompt.
Tears are one of the hardest human experiences to write about in fresh language. List five cliches that are often used to write about tears.
Practice.
Now practice writing about tears without cliche, beginning with fresh verbs: Write "tears" five times on a piece of paper. Then follow each instance of the word with a surprising verb.
Want More?
Listen to Ross Gay perform his poem "Weeping," or read it here.
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Today’s Daily Nourishment was provided by Catherine Ricketts. You can pre-order her new book, The Mother Artist, here.
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