Do you live in Victoria (BC)? @Ryan Clark and I are meeting for coffee in the James Bay area on October 15, 2026 at 10:00 AM. I'm in town visiting my brother and aunt for the week, and thought it'd be wonderful to catch up with our Skool pals. Drop me a note if you'd like to join us. I'd love to catch real hugs IRL. Happy Friday. What’s bringing you good vibes today?

There are ideas we think we're supposed to write about. And then there are the ones we keep thinking about when no one is asking us to. The question we return to. The story we keep telling. The subject we find ourselves reading about again. The sentence we can't quite leave alone. We can dismiss that repetition because it doesn't seem useful yet. But what if your attention is telling you something? You don't have to know what the idea will become before you give it more of your attention. Sometimes interest comes before understanding and fascination comes before language. And sometimes we discover what matters to us because we finally stop dismissing the very thing that keeps bringing us back.

One of my favourite things about writing is the moment when two things I hadn't consciously connected suddenly find each other. An experience from years ago connects to something I'm thinking about today. A sentence I've written reminds me of a conversation. An idea I've had suddenly makes more sense when another idea arrives. Neither one necessarily changed. I saw the relationship between them. This is one reason we don't always need to rush to decide what an idea means. Nothing has meaning except the meaning we give it. And sometimes that meaning changes as new connections appear. The deeper meaning may not be inside the original idea at all. It may be in what it eventually connects to. Choose one thought you've been carrying and begin with the words, “This makes me think about...” Don't decide where you're going. Follow the connection and notice where it takes you. When do unexpected connections between ideas tend to find you?

Earlier this year, several members participated in a Community Challenge across ten Skool communities. Our members shared what they valued about being part of this community. @Vicki Dunn participated and shared how the Sacred Writing Sessions helped her find her “truest words.” You can find the one-minute challenge video on our the Sacred Writing About page. In this short, I share how much I loved that language when I first heard Vicki say it—and asked her permission to borrow it. 🥰 We’re live now if you’d like to join us for tonight’s co-writing session. And the Language Portal opens again at 9:00 AM PT Wednesday morning. What becomes possible when you stop trying to find the right words and give your truest words the space to find you?

Sometimes an idea arrives before you know what to do with it. A sentence. A memory. A question. Something someone says that remains with you. Our instinct can be to figure it out immediately. Where does this belong? What am I supposed to do with it? Is it even worth keeping? But not everything needs to make sense when it first arrives. Write it down. Give it somewhere to live. You may come back tomorrow, next month, or six months from now and suddenly recognize why it mattered. Skylie Cash writes about this in her book, Timelines of My Future. Sometimes we can look back at something we wrote and realize it wasn't meant for that moment. We were writing something we would understand later. Think of something you've almost dismissed because you didn't know where it belonged or what would come from it. Write down what you know about it right now. What changes when you trust that your interest in it is reason enough to keep listening?