I declare I love writing

[Sophia Samwell]

Hello! I use writing to relax. I just love it. Even writing this post is making me pretty chilled out. 🙂

I think communicating with people is one of the finest forms of self expression.  & I am very happy to be a part of these forums, where I can be myself!

I was writing for the past several months, by the way, as I found this old manuscript by a Jesuit priest who was homophobic and misogynistic.  I rewrote his entire work for women (and men) and published it on Amazon as  How to Be Spiritually Beautiful .  I really do feel more pretty for writing it!

It’s been quite a journey… check out my introduction post on these forums for my quick transgender story.

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[Jackie Rusalka]

Since I was a child, writing has always been the lense through which I could understand the world, and a salve.  A tool to sooth.  A conversation with myself to build perspective. Like an ongoing memoir. Recently receiving a cancer diagnosis sharpened the idea for me of writing as a window for others to understand what it means for me to be alive… including  my own unique long journey to become the woman I was born to be. And if I’m really really  lucky, to be able to leave something beautiful behind in my wake.

[Michelle Lawson]

Sophia, writing, albeit more in my head, is something I love to do. My problem is that the thoughts in my head seem to flow so well, so smooth. But by the time it comes to sitting down and putting fingers to keys, it all turns into the vanishing dream I had last night. The bits and pieces that made it so wonderful, have just drifted endlessly away….. But for that fleeting moment, those words were somewhere, and they were mine…… Michelle

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