Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

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

This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.

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

Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning is in the importance of small things.

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.