We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache.
I could spend two years cross-legged on my floor and feel like I was working.
I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.
I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.
I've certainly faced some raw, real pain in my life. I lost my father to a car accident when I was young. My mother died ten years ago. My son was very sick as an infant. Eventually, I have attempted to transform this pain into art, to make meaning out of it.
This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179]