Where to tap, with precision, to let fall away the excess, the inclusions that cloud life's essence - privilege, security, our pandering to a particular idea of beauty - this is the unwritten corollary to a diagnosis, one we can lean into, or ignore. But personal illness is not our only disease, says this 14-year ovarian cancer survivor with a new, even more terrifying diagnosis than that. Staring into the truth of who we are, individually, in our circle of family and friends, or globally as a planetary diagnosis, is a courageous undertaking. Our hand often falters when we take up the jeweller's tools. How do we honestly assess the essence of who we are and protect only that, tapping away and letting fall the excesses we so enjoy that another, more exquisite and lasting reality may emerge?
On May 14, 2024 gretta wrote :