“I Tell You What…”

5.10.25

“the cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek” - J. Campbell

Pain is a myriad of threads, fleeced together. Memories tied up with scents, with lights, with flashes of images that slowly connect to your story? But what if you don’t know your story? What if the threads are so intertwined into a ball that you can’t make sense of it?

You pause.

You sit still and lay on your back, frozen with pain but persisting to stubbornly understand it. Our society is cruel and Puritanical with how we view pain and suffering. The capitalists and faux Christians teach us that those who suffer must deserve it in some fashion. But the pain I grew up with and absorbed watching my mother and father is deeper, hidden and glossed over. 90’s science teaching us that it’s better living through chemistry