advocate
Feb 20, 2025
1 min read
Let me break even
with the odds. There’s no
ecstasy in winding down, but
please believe
it isn’t excruciating either. I’ll bet that inertia
is what we need for a while
to hear the advocacy inside;
a silence to exploit with the sound of our rescue.
© Mollie Mardel
It is very true that winding down is not excruciating. Sometimes it is necessary to make a 'correction' when life has spun. You are allowed to spin it back. The current zeitgeist, which I think all we writers are affected by more than we think. It's about correction and humanity and the world - in the past you would have thought revolution was coming you can see it building everywhere. Questioning of the structures around us in every artform. But then, isn't that what we writers are there for - to put the world into words and help others use their own words in reply. To interact with the world and lay it open.