August At The Liminality Journal!

thoughts on authoring, dates for writing sessions, and more

Dear friends,

What a summer it has been! I’ve just returned home from speaking at the Chautauqua Institution during their 150th year. My talk, How To Be Caring Resistors, is inspired by the work of Living Resistance, and how we show up and care for ourselves, one another, and Mother Earth.

For those who need a reminder (even sometimes I forget exactly what I’m working on lately), I’m writing a new book set to come out next year on the power of storytelling, and how we use stories to harm and heal one another. As I write in the book, stories run the world. They really do.

I’ve still got a pile of books on my desk to get through, plus a larger pile on the floor of my office, and I’ve found that setting 20-40 minute timers to read helps me stay focused in a very, very distracting world. What helps you get through your book piles? I’d love to know in the comments.

This is my fourth adult non-fiction book, and I’ve learned over the years that at some point along the writing journey, the book reveals themselves to you. It’s this strange thing, we write the books, we share our hearts and minds to the pages, but, in the spirit of what Liz Gilbert writes in her books, the magic shows up at some point, at some point maybe we are chosen to write what’s already out there swirling around, waiting for us.