I don’t write enough for myself. Not honest and true enough. That is it, what we all lust for.

People want truth, they want to be taken seriously. It is our greatest basic need: honest communication. To be taken seriously as what we are, with what we have to say and what we think.

And around us: the world, nature – an unaltered look at it. An honest look at it. To name things as they are. The violence, the injustice, the hatred, the unlovingness. Not to alter what we say and think in favor of a false self-protection, a false protection of others. This is perhaps the central theme: false protection. (Denial, disavowal, violence.) It strips us of ourselves, it strips us of a shared world, of the world itself. We have fallen ill of it.

And in every human being dwells the good. I believe in it, I have seen it. That’s why we hope and love at all. Because we know it. We are driven to push aside the false protection in ourselves and others, to overcome it. To create community. Honesty.

And beauty, too. Because in truth we will prevail. In truth, we will come into light.