internet explorers club | on grief

As some (if not all) of you have heard, my mom passed away last month, which is why there's been some delay at sending out this newsletter again. What I'd like to do is share a few things that have been helping me out, some articles that have taken on new resonance, and some things that Mom would have enjoyed.

First off, I read Joan Didion's A Year of Magical Thinking in the weeks afterward which everyone said was a bit masochistic, but Didion has such a way with words, a way with grief, and a way to reassure that these thoughts are not crazy, that it was so incredible to me:

Ian Urbina has written a piece for the NYT Magazine about passwords, and how we wrap up all kinds of memory in them. It is sweet, and above all real—he's pulled these amazing stories out of something so simple. After the article was posted, he asked for submissions, and a few more are highlighted here.

On a lighter note, I can't describe how fast I would have sent this official hashtag notification to mom (see right).

Etcetera: Someone put the API of Wikipedia to music, and it's lovely and calming, and I highly recommend it. What your punctuation (long live the em dash!) says about you.

In closing, if you'd like a brief peek at who my mom was, we found a video of her playing a Bruno Mars song on the ukulele, that she had recorded for her sister-in-law, but never managed to send. It is a perfect encapsulation of her.

xoxo

Emily