“Life is Beautiful, In Spite of Everything”
Why write? Who are we writing to? What for? Writing beckons me as a teacher, a healer and a therapist. There are lessons in writing. There is meaning in language - words chosen and pieced together in just the right way. For me, there is something quite visceral about the words on a page. I can feel it in my bones or find it catching my breath. But I often find it difficult to convey what’s going on in my head and heart in a language that fits. But then I met Etty. Esther "Etty" Hillesum is not with us anymore, at least not in the physical sense. But she has been with me every day since we were introduced. Our introduction was simple - a brief mention in a book accompanied with a quote from her, which I couldn’t seem to get out of my head. “There are many miracles in a human life. My own has been one long sequence of inner miracles”. The pull drawing me towards her was magnetic. I dove in - Wikipedi...