I read marvelous words from Darlene Cohen this morning.  She talked about physical pain in a way that I’ve hardly ever glimpsed.

And I thought: “Write about this in your blog, Bruce!” 

And then I hesitated.  “I don’t know” showed up …

I realized a basic fact: “I’m not in pain right now.”  And my head started shaking “No.” 

I need to reflect on Darlene’s thoughts when I’m in the middle of experiencing what she’s talking about:  It hurts!

Of course, I don’t have to do it that way, but it would be far more valuable for me (and I expect for you) if I was living the life experience of pain in the moment.

And so I will wait for the nausea, or the dizziness, or the muscle ache to return.  Because they will. 

It might be tomorrow or it might be three weeks from now, but the speaking will be spoken.  Today something else was alive.