The Spiritual in Our Writing

Human hunger for resonant meaning

Alison Acheson
The Unschool for Writers
6 min readSep 17, 2023

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Photo by Erez Attias on Unsplash

Years ago I bought an old library copy of a picturebook called Frank and Zelda. We’d borrowed it many times, and my boys loved it in the way children do: we read it hundreds of times, and it was often the requested read when they were feeling ill (reserved for only the most favourite books).

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Alison Acheson
The Unschool for Writers

My latest book is a memoir, Dance Me to the End: Ten Months and Ten Days With ALS. My newsletter is on Substack: THE UNSCHOOL FOR WRITERS.