We all process our lives in different ways. The way that feels most natural, healing, and exciting to me is writing stories.

This includes welcoming and writing the stories that arise in my mind through imagination, and considering the possibilities I've almost lived, as well. It includes observations from the lives of others. All these things help me see, feel, touch, taste, and hear my life—experiencing past, present, and future.

What's so beautiful about creating art with stories and words is that it doesn't have to make perfect sense; my brain doesn't have to calculate anything. And yet there's a rightness, a rhythm, a pattern in the work. Words are the vehicle. Stories transcend words, conveying deep understanding.

If writing is one of your ways of understanding, of finding deep knowing, I invite you to really get this writing groove on: be affirmed, be supported, find a few hours in your week or a weekend in your year, to feel the wonder of exploring the universe in your own, unique, word-full and yet beyond-words way.

One more thing to mention. When I dive deep into story, that's wonderful, but day-to-day details can be hard to track. I forget, for instance, to send this newsletter! Thanks to a brilliant writer's suggestion, I'm starting on a newsletter schedule. So you can expect to hear from me on the first every month. Happy August 1!