WELCOME TO THE WRITINGS OF MICHAEL BRATNICK
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Wholeness and longing are as common as breath, so much a part of the fabric of our being they often remain unseen. They meet us everywhere, setting direction, not detail. All we do is answer their call. The shapes we build about them become a life lived, unique in time. |
These writings span a 15 year period in the life of Michael Bratnick. Of them he said, “I saw these writings as guidance from my greater self on what I needed at the time and rarely shared them with others. Yet I felt for some time that they were not mine only and that I should free them to find their way in the world.”
“My writings pay homage to wholeness and longing and the diversity they engender. They touch on family and play, psychological difficulties, the spiritual quest, struggle, resolution, limits, lack, joy, victory and more. In essence, they explore the life-long endeavor to claim ourselves just as we are in a just-as-it-is world.”
Michael’s life was a shape built around his answer to the call of wholeness. He wished for each of you who found this website that these poems or a handful of lines will “bring greater clarity to your longing and the realization of the wholeness you already are.”
The collection was completed on January 25, 2008.