I've read this piece before and it's hitting me hard again. It's illuminating for me to be brought so closely into your experience and worth remembering that, when our actual physical safety is at stake, we've only got bad choices to make. Thank you for sharing this.
Once again, your honesty has left me breathless. Your writing makes tangible what 10,000 movies will never do; sometimes a word is worth a thousand pictures.
You are one of the bravest people I have ever met. Not fearless: I believe bravery is the heart of a person who know their fear, honors it, and does not allow themself to be held back by it. I don't think there are many brave people in our world, and knowing you is a great honor.
I understand that the boy about whom you write is inside the man I know, where he finally receives the love and protection he so badly longed for. It can be hard to remember this, though, as the man I know is beautiful, strong, compassionate, and possessed of profound mental and emotional intelligence. Thank you for being in the world.
This was gorgeous, thank you for it. Sometimes I think our biggest communal divides can be boiled down to one group taking their physical safety for granted and another group that can’t, and the former group refusing to empathize with the latter. This perspective is so essential.
I've read this piece before and it's hitting me hard again. It's illuminating for me to be brought so closely into your experience and worth remembering that, when our actual physical safety is at stake, we've only got bad choices to make. Thank you for sharing this.
Stanley,
Once again, your honesty has left me breathless. Your writing makes tangible what 10,000 movies will never do; sometimes a word is worth a thousand pictures.
You are one of the bravest people I have ever met. Not fearless: I believe bravery is the heart of a person who know their fear, honors it, and does not allow themself to be held back by it. I don't think there are many brave people in our world, and knowing you is a great honor.
I understand that the boy about whom you write is inside the man I know, where he finally receives the love and protection he so badly longed for. It can be hard to remember this, though, as the man I know is beautiful, strong, compassionate, and possessed of profound mental and emotional intelligence. Thank you for being in the world.
This was gorgeous, thank you for it. Sometimes I think our biggest communal divides can be boiled down to one group taking their physical safety for granted and another group that can’t, and the former group refusing to empathize with the latter. This perspective is so essential.