Open AccessFive Pictures of My Son
Author(s) -
Rita Malenczyk
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
writers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2688-9595
DOI - 10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2021.2.2.3-5
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , reflection (computer programming) , sort , the thing , aesthetics , literature , philosophy , history , art , epistemology , computer science , programming language , telecommunications , information retrieval
It’s hard for me to talk in any kind of brief, definitive way about what this essay is. If pressed (which I sort of am now) I’d say that it’s a reflection on coming to terms with what is possibly the most terrible thing that can happen to a parent, and doing so while one is a teacher, scholar, and writer. It is also, for me, a way of moving forward, of memorializing my son while trying to find meaning in the things I’ve always done but which have changed in their significance now, in ways I’m not yet sure I can name.