Rita Charon talks about “standing in the glare” in her 2011 TED talk “Honoring the Stories of Illness.”

My railing friend blogs intermittently here; there is an image of the railing in the post “History is Personal: Columbus, Protest, and Baltimore.”

Wendell Berry explores this idea in his 2012 Jefferson lecture, “It All Turns on Affection.” (Which if you have not encountered it yet–do you even READ this blog? LOL.)