If you stick with writing, you will get better and better, and you can start to learn the important lessons: who you really are, and how all of us can live in the face of death, and how important it is to pay attention to life, which is why you are here.*
Anne Lamott

One word follows another,
Sentences queue into lines of meaning,
Lines stacking themselves into
verses or
paragraphs, even
• bullet-points,
Organising in ways the words
resist in our thoughts.**

When we write,^
We are endless,
Not in some fictional way, but
transcendentally:
We can find our
humility, gratitude, faithfulness:
Who we are,
What we have,
What we can do,
And previously unimagined
possibilities tender themselves
to our day.

*Anne Lamott’s Almost Everything.
**Check out Seth Godin’s blog Time well spent, as an example of stacking words;
^Here are some resources: Austin Kleon’s journaling blogs, Julia Cameron’s morning pages, Ryder Carroll’s The Bullet Journal Method, commonplace book-writing.