Writer

Writing is: narrating, to me. Whether it is a poem, a song, a book, a movie, a joke, a commercial, your memoir… You are telling a story: through images, words, music.

All of us have received that gift: to share our stories with each other. And to allow them to come to life, we need one another. Writer and reader. Narrator and listener. Performer and audience…

We need each other in this co-creative process. Without others, no story is ever finished, really. Does it even exist, if nobody knows about it? Like that famous Zen koan teaches: “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”

The same goes for writing and storytelling, I feel: those stories are connecting us with one another. With our neighbours, our communities and the world around us… And also in time: with those who have come before us and “on whose shoulders we now are standing”, as well as with them who will come after us. So simple. And so vital.

Whether it happens over the phone, around a campfire, through a greeting card or a film that moves you: we are all human beings. And by exchanging our stories, we can keep on growing and enriching ourselves and one another, again and again. What a miracle, don’t you think, and what a joy…! That this, too, is part of being human and being alive?

And as far as I am concerned, yes: I want to write and keep telling stories happily ever after.

Happy Trails to You!