Donna-Michelle St. Bernard - Thought #7 - FIND JOY,TOO

My name is Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and this is my seventh thought.   whenever Desmond Cole shares photos of flowers, I smile. I can't read more than a chapter of  "The Skin I'm In",  not in one sitting, without hitting a nerve  and needing a breath  before reading the next.  thinking this substantial text  holds just a fraction of the actions undertaken  to receive the story, and to convey it.   I am stilled by a portion of what he relates,  a small shard of what he has heard,  stilled, though only ever glimpsing the edge Of the people and pages  and pixels and grief that the writer receives  and distills for us,  the guts that they spill for us  and what it takes to pack them back in again,  never mind the ones that won't fit anymore,  so full of new truths, crowding out room for you  some people do that every day,  on public pages, in private homes,  alone in the long dark night of the soul.   If someone is willing to do all that, then I want them to have joy, too.   I'm so happy when they find joy. Have you seen this guy's smile? (photo credit: Desmond Cole.  music: Smile by Nat King Cole)