Getting it Out

write to think

think to speak

speak to feel

Everyone works differently. For most of my life I have needed to put words onto paper in order to fully experience what was happening to me, both inside and out. Words onto paper feels settled. Like I can finally decipher the swirl of color and brightness or darkness that is the human paradigm. It comes into view with magnifying focus.

And then what? It's come out of me in one sense, but hasn't quite made it to the collective--where I find the truest joy. If that's to happen I have to find a way to share. Words by themselves aren't enough. They have to go somewhere.

There are other ways. Plenty of non-verbal ways. Painting. Touching. Crying. Laughing. Singing. Dancing. Fighting.

but all the ways

require a willing

responsive audience

if we are to feel

seen

known

loved

Aren't we all the same? If what we are experiencing stays inside of us, clamped down and unresolved, our hearts perish in isolation.

Artist Point at Yellowstone National Park, facing the lower falls