Inside the Writing of When Breath Comes: Can These Bones Live?

A Look Inside the Process: Waiting for the Right Words to Come

Writing When Breath Comes: Can These Bones Live? isn’t just about putting words on a page—it’s about wrestling with them, waiting for them to land just right. Some ideas arrive fully formed, while others take hours, days, even weeks of sitting in the quiet, turning them over, feeling for the weight of truth in them.

I’ve spent late nights and early mornings with this book, shaping and reshaping sentences, making sure they hold. This isn’t just a book—it’s a journey, one that I am walking alongside you.

Today, I’m sharing the introduction. This is where it begins. I want you to read it, sit with it, and tell me—does it resonate? Does it hold weight? Does it name something real in you?

The valley isn’t the end. Breath is coming. But first, we stand in the silence.

Let me know what stirs in you as you read.