Janan Alexandra

Nov 26, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Janan Alexandra |Deborah Thompson |Lilly Dancyger

1. We tend to use the word “bitter” to denote taste, temperature, or feeling. Often, though not always, bitterness carries a negative charge, bringing us into proximity with a mostly undesirable set of feelings or experiences. Perhaps like jealousy, one doesn’t aspire toward bitterness in one’s inner life, relational world, emotional wheelhouse, etc. 2. In common parlance, the word is familiar and mundane: bitter greens, a bitter wind blew all night.