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Lost & Found

In 'Lost & Found,' the reader is drawn into a narrative that explores the complexities of human memory and the profound impact of unexpected encounters. The story follows a protagonist whose life is upended by the rediscovery of long-lost memories, leading to a series of revelations that reshape their understanding of themselves and the world around them. more

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“She did not tell them to clean up their lives or go and sin no more. She did not tell them they were the blessed of the earth, its inheriting meek or its glorybound pure. She told them that the only grace they could have was the grace they could imagine. That if they could not see it, they would not have it. 'Here,' she said, 'in this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard...”

“Was a miracle just a matter of luck? Or did faith itself bring healing? Could love of God help free one from suffering or grant one the grace to bear it? A deliverance rather than an old-fashioned Biblical healing. Is love the one miracle we always have?”

“But I'd begun, slowly, to understand that complex post-traumatic stress disorder, or cPTSD, was different. It was particularly difficult to treat, because - like a flat landscape - it didn't offer a significant landmark, an event, that you could focus on and work with. Complex post-traumatic stress, according to the psychiatrist Judith Lewis Herman, is the result of 'prolonged, repeated trauma,' rather than individual traumatic events. It's what happens when you're born into a world, shaped by a world, where there's no safety, ever. When the people who should take care of you are, instead, scary and unreliable, and when you live years and years without the belief that escape is possible. When you come from a world like this, when all your muscles are trained to tension and suspicion, normal life feels unbearable. It doesn't make sense, getting up, going to class, eating lunch, returning home, sleeping. You don't trust it. It doesn't feel real. And unreality can hurt more than pain.”

“On the collective level, as more people do their own healing work, expand their capacity for connection, and trade individualism for interdependence, we will have a much greater capacity to change the oppressive systems that keep all of us, and especially the most marginalized, from being free.”