There’s Always Crying in Sports
Rebecca Parker Payne writes about how crying in sports hints at something much bigger than weakness or sadness about losing.
Rebecca Parker Payne writes about how crying in sports hints at something much bigger than weakness or sadness about losing.
I’ve drawn blood from others, in my childhood, even friends and kin— slit the heavy garment of skin or split sinus caves with the hard hammer of my fist. Very young, I cried if my sister hurt herself. Later, her hot blood slicked my hammering hand— that hurt was, more than hers, my own. And […]