Also from August 1st, 2014. An observation that still resonates today, expressed with a boldness I’m a little awed by.
All around me, the most beautiful and powerful people I know are flailing, as though wrapped in chains and thrown into frigid waters, or suspended above scorching flames. Pain radiates through each of us–I can see it, etched on our faces, hear it in voices strained hoarse as though from screams, feel it because within that buried terrible panic I resonate too.