Hey, beautiful. My new book, Beautiful Writers, a journey of big dreams and messy manuscripts with

tricks of the trade from bestselling authors, is finally out in bookstores. For as long as I can

remember, I have wanted to write books. I'm guessing you can relate because you have stories too, world transforming

ideas tickling your brain, a unique perspective on a corner of life somehow overlooked, perhaps

a tale that won't stop unfurling its chapters inside your mind. The dream, the ache to write, has been thrumming through

your veins for longer than you can recall. And yet, something, time, confidence, life, is

holding you back. Well, not anymore if I have something to say about it. I hope you'll pick up a copy of beautiful writers

and let me know what you think. Now let's start the show. Out in the forest I had this very strong

feeling of great spiritual power out there. It was the kind of feeling that I sometimes have

in one of the old cathedrals

where people have been to worship year after year,

after year.

The chimpanzees I knew in the old days

are almost all gone.

But one of the ones who was by real, I say friend, was Gremlin.

The last time I actually saw Gremlin, she came right up to me and looked into my eyes.

I mean, of course they recognized us just as we recognize them.

And I've always had a strange connection with animals.

I connect with people with words, with animals. it's more mind to mind.

So many things in my life seem to be coincidence, but I'm not sure I believe that anymore,

because things happen, I think they seem to happen for a reason.

That was Jane Goodall, PhD, Dame of the British Empire, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute

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