And he noticed that the more he wrote, the better he felt. He opened up to his wife again, and to his work. His depression lifted.*
Susan Cain

Tenderness, love, and compassion are exquisite feeling experiences and are generally recognised as such.**
Erich Fromm

I come to my morning journal to
write myself into the day;^
The shape of the day just is better, even bigger –
Connecting me with the past and future – and I,
I feel better prepared to fill it –
Far from perfect or anything close, but
bringing me closer to the things that
matter most of all.

*Susan Cain’s Bittersweet, of James Pennebaker;
**Erich Fromm’s The Revolution of Hope;
^I have found that what began as a hopeful experiment on the 15th May, 1998, has sustained me across the years.