#grief-and-recovery

#grief-and-recovery

pairing it with an '80s-inspired synth-pop palette. The album's closing track, power ballad "Appetite," is even an ode to desire itself: "I'm chewing you up, chewing you up," she chants on the rousing coda, refusing to apologize for going after what she wants. It recalls the delicious sensory abundance of a Mary Oliver poem: "there is no end/...to the happiness your body/is willing to bear."

I remember my first time being committed to a psychiatric hospital. I had been living homeless and delusional outside for 13 months, and felt life was exciting and free. Unaware that I was suffering, I told myself that it was okay to get caught outside in rainstorms and that looking for food in the garbage to eat every day was an acceptable part of life.