Thanks For Being Here - Alex Mallonee's Essay About His Mom Joyce

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🗓️ 21 May 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Alex Mallonee wrote this meaningful essay: “Things I Learned From My Mother Through the Art We Made Together”. It’s a look at Alex’s beautiful relationship with his incredible mom Joyce, her 25-year cancer journey and the art project they created together called “Deconstruction”. Joyce’s creativity, desire to collaborate, love and sense of humor fueled the project but more importantly, showed Alex how to live well. You can experience the “Deconstruction” Virtual Art Show here: https://deconstructionart.live/ If you would like to support the project, you can do so here: https://deconstructionartshow.wedid.it/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome to Thanks for being here, a short weekly pod to remind us of the many essential and beautiful ways we affect one another.
0:09.6	Every Sunday, I'll read a submission from a listener of Kelly Corrigan Wonders,
0:13.7	could be wedding vows or about mitzvah toast, a eulogy, or retirement speech.
0:18.9	We believe this is probably the loveliest way to tap into our better selves and remember our highest values.
0:26.0	We encourage you to share this podcast each week with one person you love, maybe someone you miss
0:31.6	and need to bring closer, someone you want to feel your appreciation or admiration or both.
0:38.3	This is Thanks for being here.
0:40.0	Today's Thanks for being here comes from Alex Malone. Hi there, my name is Alex Malone and I'm the co-creator of
0:57.1	Deconstruction, an art film hybrid project about my late mother Joyce Malone and her 25-year cancer
1:05.3	Garrett Peters, who works on our podcast team, has been a frequent collaborator and he mentioned
1:11.2	that thanks for being here is always looking for submissions and specifically at this time of year
1:16.8	stories about mothers. Hopefully you're still on the lookout because I can effusively gush
1:22.9	about my mom. Here's my submission, things I learned from my mother through the art we made together.
1:30.8	The first time my mother told me about the idea for deconstruction, an art project inspired by her 25-year
1:39.6	cancer journey, I was in disbelief, not because I didn't get it or anything. In fact, it was quite
1:45.2	the opposite because while my mother Joyce had always been a creative soul, this was the first time I
1:51.0	had seriously heard her express a desire to make art, extremely personal art at that, about her
1:58.1	life, her body, and ultimately her death. For her deconstruction was an idea she'd been kicking
2:04.4	around for a year or so and it all started as a coping mechanism. She developed a mental exercise
2:10.8	to calm herself down during her many visits to the doctor's office. Mom imagined herself laid out
2:16.8	on an operating table with doctors and nurses buzzing around her, removing, replacing, and altering
2:23.0	parts of her. Soon the exercise became more abstract. Mom began to think of it as a way to document
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