To Listen And To Be Seen

In my blog entry “How I Use Pain to Transform my Life” I wrote about my journey of handling and living with chronic pain. This topic challenges me with two, sometimes conflicting, needs: The one of being seen and the one of avoiding self-pity.

Early Morning Poem

Yesterday, I wrote some lines in my travel journal, thinking they would make a good poem. This morning after waking up, I went with the flow and wrote a couple of lines in a couple of minutes. I want to share them here without much editing or corrections: Lying on a way too soft mattress,