Our conversation this week is with author, herbalist, and supreme champion of reading and literacy, Renea Winchester.
"When you see people, what are you going to do with it?" Renea asks this powerful question, and her own answer is to write stories of the unseen. Her debut novel, "Outbound Train", crystallized when she saw a young girl looking at her through the window of a trailer in her hometown of Bryson City, NC. That girl wouldn't let Renea go, and she knew deep inside that's the story she had to tell. So she wrote to honor what she saw, where she came from, and the people who made her.
Renea's book teaches us to be rather than to seem. Instead of focusing on images through a screen, we must look directly at what's real in front of us. Who knows what you'll see. You might not write a novel about it, but you can do something to help other people see it, too.
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