A #vanlife travel blogue memoir, where the truth is stranger than fiction, and the fruits are strangerous traction. I've been still for a year now, please help me get back on the road. https://unravelogue.substack.com

How we meet and Why it Matters. I bought this book years ago, new, on a hunch, which is really unusual for me. Last week someone suggested I watch 'Join or Die' on Netflix (i rarely watch anything on the tellyvision thing). Priya is in this doc and so I went back to the book and it's amazing, I'm 2 chapters in so I'll come back and expand when done. So far, it's everything I want to work for: Communities. People. Communication. Connection... The doc is facts about the decline of American health due to decline of people joining clubs and groups, and it too is based on 'Bowling Alone' a book by the inimitable Bob Putnam.

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Hello all, great to be here in your community, thank you. As my profile says I'm mad about Dialogue in every sense of the word, and it's a word that translates as 'through' (dia) and 'meaning' (logos). As a professional dialogue facilitator I create and hold spaces for people to make meaning together, with better communication, especially in neurodiversity. Someone told me recently about a book-based project called Soul Writing by Joy Reichart. Have you read it or done it? I did the Morning Pages years ago but wondered if this is different. Anyway I'm really really really keen to get into fiction but people round me keep saying "you have to read a lot of fiction in order to write it" - I don't believe that! But then again I've not yet tried. I have just written a book though and it will be out in March. Ooh I've also got my memoirs nearly ready for publishing - no idea where though so might go KDP.... Have a great day. Excited to be here. Jonny 🫠