The Music is Beautiful

Today, Open Thought Vortex Magazine published a piece in which I come forward about an assault I’ve never publicly shared. I chose to do this there for a number of reasons. One is that OTV is dedicated to elevating voices and conversations which have primarily come to include issues of survival. The other is a history of trust and love. While I may have left my editorial position at OTV, it still has a place in my heart.

It was such a privilege to be invited to support OTV. Watching it grow as its creator and publisher Shareen Mansfield dreamed its new directions and shape from the inside was a profound experience. When it was time for me to move on to my own projects (they are under way, I promise), I left incredibly proud of what OTV had become and confident in its future. Since leaving my post, I am delighted to see it has become even better. OTV has grown to include daily content and a broader expanse of strong, regular voices on topics of beauty and survival.

If you haven’t discovered the magazine, I hope you will. Start anywhere, but if you want, start with my story of being healed by a cello at a point in my life when I wasn’t certain of who I was, where I belonged, or how I might recover.