Interbeing 1

In the mailbox this morning: You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you encounter the arts – you read, you listen, you look. You begin to see, hear, and understand you are not alone. The artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian, seeing things other people don’t admit are there. The terrible thing about being an artist – and the joy – is that you don’t decide to become one, you discover that you are one. – after James Baldwin.