I know why I haven’t spoken about the violence that shaped my life. If the holding of pain is hard, the speaking of it to a world that does not want to hear is not a risk most of us will take.
Author: Joan Kresich
Joan Kresich is a long time educator now focused on bringing restorative justice and sustainable practices to her community. She is the author of Picturing Restorative Justice; her poetry and prose have appeared in Adanna Literary Journal, Chrysalis Reader, HeART Online, Albatross, CounterPunch and Snowy Egret, among others. She lives in Livingston, Montana and Berkeley, California, in one place listening to the cries of wild geese, and in the other, the tumble of urban dialects.