in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience.

Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book.

Wonder and despair are two sides of a spinning coin. When you open yourself to one, you open yourself to the other. You discover a capacity for joy that wasn't in you before. Wonder is the promise of restoration: as deeply as you dive, so may you rise.

Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.

History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.

Millions of people are joined in the knowledge that writing brings insight and calm in the same way that prayer, meditation, or a long walk in the woods does. They have discovered that writing allows the racing mind to move at the pace of pen and paper or the pace of typing on the waiting screen - that journal writing is a spiritual practice.

When you’re stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.