Antoun as my family of origin are very unresponsive, ignore and gaslight me, (including four sisters) I realise how much I look forward to your responses - deep understanding of what my poetry or articles attempt to convey and share - so you manage to hold up a mirror to myself which helps me to disregard the undermining messages I am too often surrounded by.

The Zen koan of what is the sound of a single hand clapping, comes to mind... Of course a single hand clapping is just a strange, silent wave.

🙏🏾💕🙏🏾