Tag: wounds
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Of Vipassana, The Trauma of Birth, and Swords of Healing…
Buddhist teacher and vipassana meditation teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, once said, “To bring about peace we [human individuals] must learn to live with peace.” Agamemnon, brother of Menelaus and wife of Clytemnestra, declares in Homer’s Iliad, “Peace is for the women, and the weak. Empires are forged by war.” While Clytemnestra’s role is unclear in…
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Writing, The Enemy of Good, and ‘Goldilocks’…
What draws us to write is often comprises that which presents our greatest challenge when writing a story, or novel. The psychic and emotional wounds that compel us to write present the greatest, and yet oftentimes, most invisible obstacles we encounter throughout the process of crafting and refining our stories for public consumption. So what…