Deep Cuts

by Holly Brickley

personally like to pretend the phrase “deep cut” has a totally different meaning, one that has nothing to do with anyone else’s opinion. How deep does it cut? How close to the bone? How long do you feel it?

What did this say about our culture, that we had invented only one word for all these feelings? If we truly valued it we would label it more precisely, like Eskimos and snow.