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Melinda Gordon Blum's avatar

Stunning. A gorgeous reminder that going about “the business of living” requires not only bravery and grit, but vulnerability and compassion.

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Whitcomb Harding's avatar

I wrote a friend, first thing, this morning about the troubles in their family:

For these last years, so much of what I’ve felt and seen in the world seems to be about the lifeshaping power of unhealed hurt.

It feels like it’s everywhere, sometimes. It pervades lives. I sense it in mine more and more.

Then I read ‘The Broken Ring’. You’ve done the work of healing, Chris, and you’ve helped to heal me. The poet. Audre Lord said she’d written about her cancer experience, the suffering she’d lived through, in order to ‘share it for use’. You’ve made a gift of what you’ve gone through. And I thank you and congratulate you for it.

Rusty

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