fear

I have an admission to make:

This project scares me.

As I read stories of war, disability, history

I become inundated in the images

I have both seen

and created for myself in my mind

As Tim O'brien admits

the truth becomes skewed when viewed through the convex mirror of storytelling.

It is part truth and part story.

Part creation.

As an artist creating a work

I have not the tools that a therapist possesses

and as such

I am partially afraid that I will, too,

inherit a war and a disability I have not lived

or owned.

That was partially my intention.

To begin to know

To cope

To recover.

That does not mean it still doesn't scare me.