Robert Hiraeth

Stories, thoughts, and the spaces between.

Goodbyes

12-10-25., 9:20 at night… Missing you all already. Life may not be fair, but we aren’t under any obligation to help make it that way. All of my love and friendship to the Whitties that, in every conversation and every moment shared these last few months, brought light and solidarity to me in a very…

Robert Hiraeth

10th December 2025

Essays & Reflections

bittersweet, class, college, friendship, goodbyes
Cartoon

What’s your favorite cartoon? Favorite cartoon? That would have to be “Home Movies”. Loren Bouchard’s early project about three kids and the films they make with the help of some strange friends and their VHS camcorder. Early appearance of H Jon Benjamin who voices Coach McGuirk, a criminally irresponsible soccer coach. It took a few…

Robert Hiraeth

9th December 2025

Essays & Reflections

dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2147
Why I Have to Mourn

I started writing about all of my friends and brothers that I’ve lost over the last couple of years, just from this small three unit space. The list itself is too long, and I refuse to just put names into the ether without telling the world a little about each one. Alex was the latest.…

Robert Hiraeth

20th November 2025

Essays & Reflections

bearing witness, correctional officers, criminal justice reform, grief and loss, incarceration, inside perspective, institutional violence, lived experience, mass incarceration, mental health crisis, mourning, prison conditions, prison grief, prison reform, prison suicide, prison writing, social justice, suicide crisis, systemic failure, Washington State Penitentiary

Goodbyes

Cartoon

Why I Have to Mourn