kindred spirits
weekly story work exercise
If you’re new here, Story Work is the name of my current book-in-progress. It describes a process of reflecting, reclaiming, and reimagining the stories of our lives. It involves looking at your life experiences as creative material that you have the power to shape.
The weekly story work topics cover universal life themes with references from literature, philosophy, science, and spirituality; offering perspectives that spark ideas for personal growth and creative expression.
Paid subscribers receive Story Work exercises every Sunday night at 8 pm et.
Read on for a preview of the weekly exercise.
kindred spirits
“A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.”
― Maya Angelou
If you’re just joining us, our current story work theme is Friendship Matters. Writing about friendship can be emotionally challenging, but it is also an opportunity to examine one of the most fundamental needs we have as humans—to connect.
Some of our most treasured friendships are unexpected.
In a world where we often gravitate towards silos of sameness, where we surround ourselves with people who look and act similarly to ourselves, what do you think it is that brings two seemingly different people together? What happens when we connect with people we might assume that we have nothing in common with?
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