Up: [[Sharing]] Course: True Confessions with Alison Luterman on 27Powers Created: 2024-05-15 Try as much as possible, in the first drafts, to ignore any future readers. But once the piece is shared, this will be impossible. People read pieces about wounding and want to help. But there's so much in life that cannot be fixed. Aging can't be fixed. Missing the opportunity to have children cannot be fixed. Being human cannot be fixed. I want to remember as a reader to not even try. I want to remember that the writer just wants me to *sit in our human dilemma together* as Alison put it. I don't have to solve anything. I don't have to rescue. If I can really take that onboard, that's a huge relief. Alison made another valuable comment. She said that she doesn't want people to think that when she shows wounds, wounds are all there are. She is so much more than that. Plus she says that the words 'wound' and 'blessing' are linguistically intertwined and she experiences them as such. Laurie added that Mark Nepo explained that the root of 'vulnerability' is vulnas which means *to carry a wound gracefully*. Beautiful.