We all process our lives in different ways. The way that feels most natural, healing, and exciting to me is writing stories.
Right now, I'm blinking in the bright light of day, moving about in the world in a way I haven't for a year and a half. Met face-to-face with a client for the first time since February 2020. Walking Northwest Twenty-Third with writer Kristin, swapping stories, sipping smoothies, and letting her take me through her writing journey, which involves the legacy of breathtaking sycamores and linden trees flanking this particular street.
Like me, Kristin doesn't write to be recognized or to make something happen for someone else, but to experience truth in her own individual way. By listening to what Life is saying to us, and by crafting the stories (and poems and pieces and flashes) that we've lived, we experience deeply.
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 a week to feel the wonder of exploring the universe in your own, unique, word-full and yet beyond-words way.
Wildfire Writing, the virtual class seasonally offered through Clark College, will be offered privately, Wednesday evenings beginning June 16.
This is your highest value for the money, and can launch you into an entirely new way of feeling into your life.
