50 calls for journalism/writing pitches (March 13, 2023)
It has been an incredibly morbid last couple of years, not just because of COVID, but also, in our household, due to the kids' awakening sense of mortality. The eldest had her first existential crisis almost exactly two years ago, when I mentioned far too offhandedly that everybody dies. It was too much for a five-year-old to take, and she stopped in her tracks, glared at me with quivering tear ducts, and promptly burst into sobs of hopeless desperation. Then just last week the youngest, sat on my lap, paused the TV, turned to face me, upon which I saw streams of tears running over his face, and said through gasps, 'Daddy I don't want you to dieeeee....' Quite what he saw that evening to prompt the fear I never found out (I did eat a bit too much triple cheese pizza), but through these subjective and objective takes on the human tragedy, our family is entering an awakened state. Next month is the girl’s birthday, when we will celebrate the start of something magical, not its end. But only because it will have an end are we able to sense and appreciate that magic.
This week’s call for pitches below.
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