Friday, October 26, 2018

Connection

Recently I saw a meme on Facebook which purported to answer the question:  "Why bother with creative writing?"  "Because right now there is someone out there with a wound in the exact shape of your words" (Shaun Thomas Dougherty from The Second O of Sorrow.)

I realize that there have been many times I've read words like that, words that kind of filled and assuaged a certain shape of inner...pain.  Furthermore, I've had the experience of responding to someone's suffering by sensing a complementary shape inside of me.  And when I offer that shape, it seems healing to the other person, and it seems to be a two-way healing.  It heals me in some way too.  There is a light that connects me to the other person, and then penetrates backward into me, and into my past, with healing light.

How interesting.