A Feeling of Kinship...

This is from an interview with Michelle Williams...same Elle magazine!

Her smile comes easily but is complicated, never carefree. "I'm always aware of the whole," Williams says. "I have that feeling inside, like when something really tickles or delights me--it's not singular. I recognize all the awful things in the world, and in spite of them, I can still laugh." This hyperawareness has come at a price. "For so long, I felt like a walking open wound everywhere I went," she says. "There's this Joan Didion quote about being afflicted from an early age with a presentiment of loss. Did I come into the world like that? Or was I kind of gifted that?