Susanna Fournier - Thought #4 - Feeling Feelings

I'm thinking about feeling feelings. I became displaced this summer -- I lost my home & most of my possessions over a 3 month period of ...well...hell. I haven't had time to feel the feelings that come with this - grief and rage - the way I normally would...by writing.  Looking back, I think I became a writer because I didn't know how to feel my feelings and writing created a space where I could experience them in the imagined bodies of others. But then again I come from WASPS - we feel safer experiencing our feelings as long as someone else is feeling them for us.