Your words are so very true; it's in those early drafts of a trauma that you get the raw experience out, the agony the desperation, the overwhelming terror of facing this alone as well as the detail of what I wore, what he said and what I didn't have the courage to say out loud through the tears. It is only years later that those first drafts are witnessed once more and redrafted again from a different perspective , from a new lens to bring some reflection and wisdom to the piece, to pare it down to the kernel, the essence of the experience.
Patti,
Your words are so very true; it's in those early drafts of a trauma that you get the raw experience out, the agony the desperation, the overwhelming terror of facing this alone as well as the detail of what I wore, what he said and what I didn't have the courage to say out loud through the tears. It is only years later that those first drafts are witnessed once more and redrafted again from a different perspective , from a new lens to bring some reflection and wisdom to the piece, to pare it down to the kernel, the essence of the experience.