Say that a person is “broken” and watch what your mind does. Either it reaches for a picture you do not really mean – a snapped bone, a body collapsed on the floor – or it gives you no clear picture at all, only a grey sense of trouble with no edge and no location.…
The abstraction of ‘brokenness’
A woman prays at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Takoma Park, Maryland. Photo: OSV News /Mihoko Owada, Catholic Standard.
