Today JD & Col laugh and cry through a chat about Sadness.
JD coins the term “feathery-nest-ship” describing the safety net friendship offers.
JD talks about picking up John Rauston Saul’s Voltaire’s Bastards in an otherwise sad psych ward library. Col mentions the Universal Vulnerable Subject, a beautiful idea from Martha Fineman, and how the myth of universal rationale actors can’t handle the complexity of our time.
They also reference The Body Is Not An Apology.
While they’re busting myths they do away with sadness being deemed unproductive and indulgent.
Col’s been trying, unsuccessfully, to cry lately. The closest he’s got so far has been listening to Bonnie Raitt’s I Can’t Make You Love Me.
As always they refer to this beautiful list of 300 emotions by Prakhar Verma - Expand Your Emotional Vocabulary With This Dictionary Of Emotions
