Tig Notaro

So do you want to share that part of your experience with us?

In the email, you said one of the things that you were, this was amazing that this was like your second sentence, but you said you were trying to figure out how and when to talk about it because you have such a,

following of young people, lots of people who struggle with all different kinds of mental health issues, which we also have here in our house and in our pod squad, and that you were trying to figure out how to talk about it in a way that, well, that wouldn't scare the shit out of everybody, right?

The way that you do talk to us in your art about suicide, I want to say.

When I talk about suicide, everybody freaks out because there just seems to be this idea that if we don't talk about it, no one will think of it.

And the way that you talk about it with such honesty and such an open heart,

definitely makes me want to live not the other way around it makes me want to live it makes me feel less alone and less terrified and I can only imagine that the way you're doing this will do the same for the world but your love for all of us is so evident sometimes I can't watch you on Instagram and it feels like

So there's this part in the Bible where I fuck up every Bible story.

So just don't correct me.

Nobody knows.

All right.

It's like a bunch of people are like, God, let us see you.

And God's like, all right, I can't do that because you'll freak the fuck out, but I'll just let you see where I just was.

Yeah.

And so that's how I feel.

I can read your books because it feels like that's where God just was.

But looking directly at you feels like there's so much God pouring out of you presently that it's alarming to me.

I find you alarmingly alive.

It's not halo.

It's bliss.