Jen Parkhill “JP”
Bio
Jen Parkhill “JP”, a first generation Cuban-American artist and proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community. Cat dad, writer, filmmaker, actor, friend, and graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.
Hurling through time.
@jenparkhill
Achievements (9)
Stories (32/0)
The Way of the Range
“Why do you always wear black?” “I’m in mourning for my life.” —Masha The Seagull *** To be alive is to mourn. Beds where we once rested our heads, people we once rested beside, animals we’ve loved, family we’ve lost, our bodies. We mourn what has been, what can never be again, hopes dashed, love soured, spring flowers that cannot last. Some days I mourn my 20 year-old knees, my grandmother’s ability to drive a car after dark, cities where young love dripped from me, my child-feet standing on my father’s surfboard, his head still full of hair. Memory, a sweet grief, exquisite and excruciating.
By Jen Parkhill “JP”2 years ago in Petlife
- Runner-Up in After the Parade Challenge
Hand Written Letters Have a Heartbeat
August 2019. 10am on Monday morning. I leave my therapist’s office and drive down Pacific Coast Highway to pick my grandmother up at her home in San Clemente to take her for breakfast. It’s a sleepy town of retired pro surfers, Volkswagon buses with surf boards hanging out the back, families, painters, old hippies. I grew up on these beaches. I experienced my first swim in sea water here, first kisses, the first time being stoned, falling in love. Those beaches were often a place to escape with a lover, a journal, my walkman. I sunk my joy and my pain there. I ran into the waves, fully clothed, just before heading to the airport the morning I moved to New York City. Just to taste the pacific one last time.
By Jen Parkhill “JP”2 years ago in Humans