For over a year now, I have been telling myself (and others) that I’m writing another book. (I say “another” because I once wrote a novel that never got published despite repeated efforts and a few close calls.) I’ve been telling myself that, but I haven’t really been writing it.
My heart has been all over the place with what this book should be. Should it be a memoir? A spiritual guidebook? A leadership book? A creativity book? A collection of personal essays? And if it’s a memoir, should it just focus on one part of my life, or a more general “story of my journey” kind of book?
There’ve been lots of rough outlines drawn, a few false starts, lots of inspirational moments… and yet, somehow nothing really stuck. Try as I might, I just couldn’t find the illusive thread that would tie the pieces of my book together.
When I quit my job in the Fall, one of the things I knew I had to do was write a book. It’s just been a deep longing for so long that I know I have to do it, whether or not it ever hits anyone’s bookshelf but my own.
Over the holidays, I wrote a guest post for Magpie Girl (Rachelle Mee-Chapman) about “the place where worldcare and soulcare meet”. As I explored a very personal story of a time in my life when worldcare and soulcare collided and taught me a valuable lesson, a little voice told me “This is it. This is the thread for the book. Now start weaving.”
And so that is what I’ll do – start weaving. And one day I will share with you whatever tapestry emerges.
Now go on over there and read the post, and then cheer me on as I try to give birth to this new baby.
And then one day, when I’m on the bestseller list (ha!), you’ll be able to say “I was there at the beginning!”
Oh, Heather, I gasped a little and got that tiny heart flutter when you realized the thread. Yes. That is it. Exactly. I can feel it. It will be a challenging birth, to be sure, but I know you are up to it and you know you have so much support and love backing you as you find your way through the hardest parts. Much, much love.
A thread of gold, I think….
Hurrah!
No “trying”, I know you’ll do it.
Your Goddessmother, Cheerleader, SisterWeaver, Champion and Companion on the road.
May it be a joyful journey…