When a woman is consistently spoken to softly & treated gently, she becomes a new woman. You're helping her heal her nervous system, you're helping her heal generational trauma, you're allowing her feminine energy to flourish, you're helping her to remember who she is.

“I speak to you with silence like a cloud or a tree.”

— Czeslaw Milosz, from New and Selected Poems (1931-2001): “Dedication”

“The ability to speak and be understood, to write and be read, is one of the great desiderata of the human spirit. Meaning is a slippery fish, but all of us—and translators and writers more than most—prefer to live in a world where people make an effort to be intelligible to one another.”

In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means, eds. Esther Allen and Susan Bernofsky