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experience what you are experiencing now—whatever we call it:
anxiety, vulnerability, fragility, or something entirely different.
As I write about our conversation and reflect on it again, an image of
a feather comes to mind—how it retains its beautiful, light, soft, and
perfectly formed appearance when held in hands that cradle it gently
and stroke it from the inside out. If the feather is squeezed, bent, or
falls into the hands of someone who, out of eagerness or ignorance,
does something else—well, then it loses the qualities that make it
beautiful and unique.
I wonder if my analogy makes sense?
When I think back on our conversation and your words about
