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I ache when the world does, and maybe that's a bit too much ego, and maybe that's just a little too close to cowardice, but it's the putting in rather than the putting on that makes another's shoes uncomfortable. Empathy isn't a promise to feel as another feels, to have walked as another's walked. Empathy is the understanding that I ache, and you ache, and it's the aching where we meet--rather than the road that brought us to it. I don't know your pain, and you don't know mine, but that's okay. We don't have to share an injury to acknowledge a wound.
(Recorded 11/09; Transcribed 12/14)
Peace be with those so brutally affected by violence, regardless of country or kind. May you meet with love--somewhere, somehow--this holiday season.
Sincerely,
Nic
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Comments: 11
Rosary0fSighs [2014-12-26 04:55:48 +0000 UTC]
This is beautiful Β
thoughts to you and yours this season
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SRSmith [2014-12-18 06:08:44 +0000 UTC]
You always come around at just the right time with just the right words.
May the holidays bring you and your family much happiness, and the New Year be filled with wonderful things.
Merry Christmas Nic.
Merry Christmas Bill.
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woodsman123452001 [2014-12-16 16:46:01 +0000 UTC]
Peace be with you and yours. Β Merry Christmas.Β
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Nichrysalis [2014-12-16 15:10:26 +0000 UTC]
I truly miss never having met Pip. His work is always strongly, subtly profound.
From one Nic to another, I will.
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