Deep Calls to Deep: The Last Circle

Today’s post is an excerpt from my novel What Can’t Be Hidden and explores one character’s realization that inner peace is essential for relational and communal peace. Here it is:

I’m the one who admitted to being the sick system, Ochi thought. I’m the one who said I take it with me everywhere I go. I’ve been so preoccupied with everyone else’s ills and wrongs and misgivings that I built up a wall around my heart. And if I can’t even look behind that wall and change myself, how do I expect an...