At the Barnes and Noble at Washingtonian Center after Jesse came home from work.
At the Starbucks on Connecticut just before Chevy Chase, Maryland becomes Washington DC.
At a kitchen table turned desk. I set it up in the girls’ playroom – my journals and books shared a bookshelf with the girls’ toys.
At Bus Boys and Poets on Langston Hughes’ birthday.
On Packard driving to a friend’s house – one word on my hand.
In a coffee shop in San Juan on a napkin.
In church on a bulletin in the margins
In the car on a parking receipt.
Next to a fire pit on a post-it note left in my jacket.
On the back of a grocery list while I looked for eggs and nectarines.
Not included: the hundreds of notebooks, each page a sliver of evidence of a path created; a life forming and reforming.
This was written in my “From Inspiration to Habit” course. This week we are paying attention to not just what inspires us to write, but to take note of all the places we already have written. (Waitlist for the next round here.)
The church bulletin – yes! I do that too.