Sara Niles age 10
The best art is produced from the driving force of the deepest passion. Pain creates passion, and passion creates art. The butterfly effect dictates different outcomes for different choices. We all reach cross roads in life, sometimes daily, but always it results in choice.
I chose to marry an abusive man when I was only sixteen years old. The reasons culminated in choices made by others, but the end result was I suffered greatly for many years, and I became wise in the ways that only trauma teaches.
I will never be happy
that I suffered, but I am thankful that I have suffered and overcome, because
it is the reason I am who I am: The pain and the passion created the drive,
that I would have never had in a perfect life. No one should ever suffer; but
if we must suffer, make it count.
It is my mission to work
relentlessly to fight against abuse and dysfunction, and the international, deadly
pandemic of domestic violence and homicide.
