The Necessity to Speak

The messages we can share through ink and paper are unnumbered. Lessons are taught, truces are made, memories are surfaced, hate manifested, wars begun and lives changed. Many write to remember while some write to forget. I want to write to heal. The freedom that comes with writing is empowering and necessary.
In Sam Hamill's "Necessity to Speak", Hamill refers many times to battered women and children as well as the actions of adult battered children. He asserts, as many others have, that battered chidren grow up to be batterers of others. They learn that they can manage stress with violence and that there is little consequence for it. Gratefully the opportunities for reformation are many and this is not a pattern that is always played out. Hamill's message, however, is clear. The warning against violence is paramount. And the brave who can write of it's evils may find peace.