Early morning walks with Millie 🌳🐾☀️ whilst listening to Ann Lamott’s Bird by Bird on Audible.

She said as a writer (and probably in life too): ‘You must risk placing real emotion at the centre of your work. Write straight into the emotional centre of things. Write towards vulnerability. Risk being unliked. You have a moral obligation to tell the truth as you understand it.”

She also said: “Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.”