Meghan O'Rourke
Meghan O'Rourke
Meghan O'Rourkeis an American nonfiction writer, poet and critic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
CountryUnited States of America
drama grief loss
Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.
mother holiday fake
My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card.
struggle loss doe
Faith does help mourners survive their loss, some studies suggest; but I imagine one still struggles.
mother thinking sick
When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.
writing way world
Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.
sports gymnastics thinking
What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.
loss thinking way
Be patient with yourself. Don't make the loss harder by thinking you should be a certain way, or have bounced back, etc.
gymnastics grace athleticism
There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.
mother world needs
The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.
sea brain mind
Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.
loss past self
There are many kinds of loss embedded in a loss - the loss of the person, and the loss of the self you got to be with that person. And the seeming loss of the past, which now feels forever out of reach.
desire one-day stories
Yet the story of Orpheus, it occurs to me, is not just about the desire of the living to resuscitate the dead but about the ways in which the dead drag us along into their shadowy realm because we cannot let them go. So we follow them into the Underworld, descending, descending, until one day we turn and make our way back.
one-day belief persons
What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.
mother stories
A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.