Welcome to the month of dreams

Lighting a candle in dark times, a poem about our collective dream of inheritance and division, and a call to write your way into better stories

“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.” Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

In my writers’ group this week, the conversation turned, as it often does these days, to the despair, fear, and grief so many of us have been feeling.

One group member reminded us:

“In these dark times, we need to hold a vision for what we want to see in the world bey…