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JEANETTE LEBLANC's avatar

I had just gotten off zoom with a new writing coaching client, and we were discussing the through line of stories, the choice to tell stories out of linear time and chronology, the way the GREAT BIG MOMENTS are not more important than the small encounters. We discussed how the map of her story may belong on a gigantic sheet of paper with a spider web of connecting lines, wild coincidences, spontaneous serendipities. In her story it was horses instead of a mountain lion or snakes, but to read this immediately after our call felt like a confirmation of the path. Thank you, for you.

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Bri's avatar

I love this! I have been thinking of my internal landscape as a terrain - ideas and stories and experiences to visit and travel to for a bit, and my timeline as populated with different species and beings and materials. Really appreciate the shifting dynamism you call out here - the magnetic rearranging these encounters draw out. We just moved to Colorado during a massive miller moth migration and have been shepherding dozens out of the house into the morning daily.

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