In this week’s essay, John Dickerson looks back on a Sunday morning in 2021, and ruminates on the empty spaces left behind by the people that once filled our lives.
Notebook Entries:
Notebook 75, page 6. September 5, 2021:
“Oh my god. We dropped our son at college and our dog is dead.” – Anne.
References:
“Sunday Morning Coming Down” by Johnny Cash
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot
“When Someone You Love is Upset, Ask This One Question” by Jancee Dunn for the New York Times
“A Case of ‘Sunday Neurosis’” by Jena McGregor for the Washington Post
“Waking Early Sunday Morning” by Robert Lowell
Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything is Changing by Brad Stulberg
Jason Isbell: Running With Our Eyes Closed
“Alabama Pines” by Jason Isbell
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth.
Host
John Dickerson
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