feel free

“How can we provide community for them, where they feel free to express themselves as poets, as well as find every way we can to get the reading public to understand that the American voice is very diverse and well worth reading?” she says.

"I don't feel free. I don't think anyone in Israel can feel free."

There was an immediate psychic relief in this action, something I should have been wary of — true psychic relief is never that fast — but I was just focused on what I thought I needed to survive: to feel free of myself, to not look at myself at all.

Some of us spend the first 18-ish years of our lives waiting until the day we can leave, headed toward someplace where we can feel free to be more like ourselves.

"Everybody's dressing up, including myself! I'm overwhelmed with a lot of emotions, just like trying to learn how to live again. We feel free, we feel light, even the air smells different."