This response in "For When People Ask" resonates with me and my daily, if not hourly., experience of striving to maintain a life of balance in the midst of the chaos of this political era. It is as if I am being strung like a yo-yo up and down by one more terrible news story after another -- and all of this is manufactured for malicious purposes. In a binary-oriented either/or world, I hear Trommer calling for both/and when it comes to emotions and life experiences.
"I want a word that means
okay and not okay,
more than that: a word that means
devastated and stunned with joy.
I want the word that says
I feel it all at once." Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
This response in "For When People Ask" resonates with me and my daily, if not hourly., experience of striving to maintain a life of balance in the midst of the chaos of this political era. It is as if I am being strung like a yo-yo up and down by one more terrible news story after another -- and all of this is manufactured for malicious purposes. In a binary-oriented either/or world, I hear Trommer calling for both/and when it comes to emotions and life experiences.
Beauty, brokenness,
breathe alongside each other.
Deep truth paradox?