Write What Makes You Cry {Preserve Your Story ~ Day 8}
Names and numbers hang pretty on the handle of my bag, these cards spreading out like a beautiful fan from the Orient. The collection is a souvenir from my weekend with two-hundred women who have a passion for documenting the nuances of life in their photographs of...
Flowing Well {Preserve Your Story ~ Day 7}
They come there empty. The construction worker in his rusty pick-up, he comes with a used Gatorade bottle. The business woman on her lunch break brings a 5-gallon jug for the water cooler. The little ones and I watch from a picnic table made out of recycled milk jugs,...
Comforting, Never Comfortable {Preserve Your Story ~ Day 6}
It’s like a tickle in your throat in the dark when the tightness in the chest lingers and congestion is an uninvited overnight guest. You try to breathe slow and deep to coax it away, the way you hold so still when a bumblebee hovers over you at the picnic table. You...
Astonishing Discovery {Preserve Your Story ~ Day 5}
The book on my nightstand waits like an old friend on the line, voice buzzing through miles of wire into heavy handset, me listening, twisting my fingers in the curl of the cord of words. I’ve known the author all my life, though he never knew me. I repeat his words...
I’m Darcy Wiley, co-writer of The Yes Effect: Accepting God’s Invitation to Transform the World Around You. I’m an explorer at heart… Read more