Ella Risbridger

You and I talk a lot when things are...

things are hard, but when things are hard or when things are significant about, oh, I guess this must be a season finale.

You know, you just.

Yeah.

I think it's also the reason why I have two things to say.

But the first thing is that, like, the reason it's helpful to think about season finales and seasons is because there are no endings, right?

There's just where you choose to stop telling the story.

You know, we both know this.

You write a lot of fiction.

I write a little bit of fiction.

But even with a memoir, you know, you choose when to stop telling the story.

And I think part of thinking about your life in terms of a season such as a season of Friends, and I do think we're thinking of Friends when we talk about it because Friends ran for so long and those characters grew so much and had so much happen to them, is it's helpful sometimes to think, ah, this big dramatic event, that's probably just a pause and we'll pick up again tomorrow.

Exactly the same.

We'll pick up again tomorrow and the cameras will keep rolling and we'll begin again tomorrow.

I think the other thing I was thinking of was, you know, that Christina Olsen poem, Eating Kit Kats After the Last Hurricane, we decided to split up.

Well, the listeners should Google it.

The narrator is sitting there with her partner or their partner and they're eating Kit Kats.

And the narrator says, this is probably over, huh?

And the partner says, please don't make this into some fucking story.

And the narrator says, I only meant the storm.