May your writing, and what it carries, bring healing to other young women and girls around the world. A great deal of damage is done to human beings by the culture, its expectations for what the profit-takers may take, or want us to take, from an early age, to be beauty. None of us, I suspect, has escaped the printing on mind, soul, and …
May your writing, and what it carries, bring healing to other young women and girls around the world. A great deal of damage is done to human beings by the culture, its expectations for what the profit-takers may take, or want us to take, from an early age, to be beauty. None of us, I suspect, has escaped the printing on mind, soul, and body.
It’s important not to spend too much time, perhaps, in the trauma, which may only perpetuate the pain . . . (There is the story of how, once the concept of anorexia and its diagnosis through the adoption of the main Western medical manual entered Hong Kong, the condition took off among girls there.)
Also important to consider are the motives of the publisher.
In my MFA, one instructor emphasized ‘truth,’ and ‘facts’. As a consequence, we read quite a lot of, well, dark and demoralizing storytelling, often with a mix of condemnation (passed off as humor) and ridicule. It’s one thing to expose the evils or injustices of the world, another to provide, through one’s work and life, healing.
Maybe forgiveness finds a place at some point in the narratives or essays. This often comes from a quiet, or quieter, place.
It sounds brilliant, recognition, then healing, are so needed at this time. (Een lezer in Leiden, ook op een helingsreis.)
May your writing, and what it carries, bring healing to other young women and girls around the world. A great deal of damage is done to human beings by the culture, its expectations for what the profit-takers may take, or want us to take, from an early age, to be beauty. None of us, I suspect, has escaped the printing on mind, soul, and body.
It’s important not to spend too much time, perhaps, in the trauma, which may only perpetuate the pain . . . (There is the story of how, once the concept of anorexia and its diagnosis through the adoption of the main Western medical manual entered Hong Kong, the condition took off among girls there.)
Also important to consider are the motives of the publisher.
In my MFA, one instructor emphasized ‘truth,’ and ‘facts’. As a consequence, we read quite a lot of, well, dark and demoralizing storytelling, often with a mix of condemnation (passed off as humor) and ridicule. It’s one thing to expose the evils or injustices of the world, another to provide, through one’s work and life, healing.
Maybe forgiveness finds a place at some point in the narratives or essays. This often comes from a quiet, or quieter, place.
It sounds brilliant, recognition, then healing, are so needed at this time. (Een lezer in Leiden, ook op een helingsreis.)
(The note is not exactly, or at all, about craft, but it’s good to note nevertheless.)