Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I just finished reading a memoir: The Beauty in Breaking, by Michele Harper. It's a profoundly moving account of her struggle to move on from a traumatic childhood and love and accept herself. She is an ER physican, African American, who describes some of her encounters with patients and what they taught her. Her command of language is wonderful, and the writing is often lyrical. I especially like the parts where she is working in a VA hospital in Philadelphia. Her compassion for the traumas soldiers have often experienced and not processed is moving. She sees the humanity in everyone, because she takes the time to do so. Her experience with a woman vet, also African American, who had been raped by more than one soldier while deployed, is wrenching. But there is lots of description of her own life, and how she heals herself after a divorce. The meditation, yoga and other self comfort she makes time for eventually bring her back to herself and her life's purpose. It's lovely.