Quiet reflections on the ways human lives are intertwined and shaped over time
This text concludes a sequence of reflections centered on the life of Robert E. Howard and on the intimate world of care, closeness, and dependence in which that life took shape. The earlier pieces lingered on childhood, family bonds, illness, and emotional concentration, attempting to stay close to lived conditions rather than reduce them to…
This text continues a reflection that began in the previous articles:When a Life Is Held Together by One ThingHester Howard: a life narrowed by illness, care, and constraint What follows is not an explanation of suicide and not a psychological diagnosis.It is an attempt to understand how a human life can gradually become organized around…
This text continues a reflection that began in the previous article: When a Life Is Held Together by One Thing. I chose to separate it into several texts, not because they belong to a formal series, but because each needed its own space to remain human and precise. When we look at a life from…
I watched this film by accident.It was The Whole Wide World — a quiet and thoughtful portrayal of the writer Robert E. Howard.It was suggested to me by an app, without context or explanation, and I did not choose it with any particular intention. I simply agreed to watch — the way we sometimes do,…