Diving In Naked

I am about to dive into one thing that is everything: every life experience I choose to give meaning to, every one of the 371 letters I wrote to a house and all 83 Moleskine research journals I filled.

I am taking the next three months to write a book with the working title of: The Search For The Good Morning House.

The origin of this book did not come from hiking the Pacific Coast Trail, like Cheryl Strayed, or travelling to Rome, Italy, and Bali, like Elizabeth Gilbert. It came from writing 371 letters to a house, the Good Morning House.

For the next couple of weeks, before I set out with my book coach guiding me, I will prepare by matching the letters with my lived experience and my four and a half years of research on authenticity and purpose.

I will also get my tires replaced because I will be travelling. Take my cat to the vet so I don’t have to worry, and make sure my youngest daughter is all set for her first summer camp job so I can free myself of day-to-day parental duties.

For this project, I will dive in with a solid foundation, my natural ability to make people feel something true about themselves and my purpose to help others maintain their authenticity.  

Starting in June in Toronto, my writing coach and I will build the structure of the book on the foundation I have spent the last six years engineering. Then I will move on to Collingwood, where I feel most at home, and then Georgian Bay, where I feel most free.

Most of my time, though, will be spent in Cobourg next to where the seed of this book was planted, the Good Morning House.

At each stop, I will step outside of myself to connect with people who will give me perspectives I have yet to consider about myself, my family, and some of the experiences that I have chosen to put meaning to for the purpose of the book.

How long will the book be? What will it sound and feel like? I have no idea, but whatever it looks, sounds and feels like it will be a tangible representation of my purpose, to inspirit so we live our best life.