Wearing my heart on my sleeve, I’ve become a human porcupine, the pain too intense to hide ….

Tibetan-American poet and writer, Lekey Leidecker, helps us recognize the anxiety we now experience. Provocative phrases such as those below are from her recent Tricycle article, Some Things Are Felt Through the Body:

• “This rage never really left. For far too long, the story has been the same.”
• “Seized by mounting anxiety, rising dread, rushed to distraction, and the cycle repeated itself”
• “Bad feelings were not internal failures, they were indicators. I cannot cut the threat down any further. I confront it at its true size.”

Check out this heartfelt article at tricycle.org/article/lekey-leidecker-body/