The Magic of Writing in Evoking Audience Empathy and Changing Perspectives

My journey in balancing my understanding of empathy

Photo by Kent Pilcher on Unsplash // Image description: plants in the sunlight // Author commentary: Plants that exist for their life’s work to simply be photosynthesizing, shimmering in the sun. Words inspired by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

I’ve been thinking about empathy often, lately.

Yet, I’ve been thinking about empathy, a positive concept, through the lens of a negative perspective. That is, I think about how important empathy is, often to describe how simply…