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Add Me to the Forest Floor

Poetry Off the Shelf

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The Importance of Silence

I think human beings in general, kind of bad at saying the right thing when someone else is going through a hard time. As soon as I was able to understand that it had nothing to do with me, it became much easier to get those kind of, you know, responses. A lot of people have had scary cancer experiences before they talk to you. Or if they haven't had any cancer experiences, I think in some ways that's the worst of all.

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