Bird by Bird

"Thirty years ago my other brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. [It] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, 'Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."       - Anne Lamott




Often we forget that moments in movement get the results. We just need to take a breath and launch into the flow. Then the momentum takes over: one word, the next one, one sentence, one paragraph, one page.

We keep moving word by word. Suddenly, the story writes itself. The birds fly from our fingertips.

Creative Write: Become a bird today and fly from branch to branch. Capture notions as you soar; notice the sky. clouds, and leaves. Smell the geraniums and roses. Hear the breeze and send your song to the world. Release from expectations of "what should happen."

Let go on wings of discovery.