It's a deep thing that people are alive, hence life is formidable.

Kazufumi Watanabe

The nonfiction writer who continues to think about a culture of "disabilities," runs into a situation where the phrase that "people with disabilities are human beings as well as healthy people" itself complicates matters many times. The ways of thinking of people with disabilities that reverse the situation such as "disabilities" are born in society, "an ability to find value" is more important than the "value" of people, give him the energy to go on. From "Why Do People Support Each Other?"

"February 16  2019

from “Oriori no Kotoba” by Kiyokazu Washida, The Asahi Shimbun"