Vulnerability is not a weakness, a passing indisposition, or something we can arrange to do without. Vulnerability is the underlying, ever-present and abiding undercurrent to our natural state… In refusing our vulnerability, we refuse the help needed at every turn of our existence, and immobilise the essential, tidal and conversational foundations of our identity… The only choice we have as we mature is how we inhabit our vulnerability.

David Whyte, Consolations, 2019