Introductory Episode - Welcome!

Hello, Pen – Meet Paper
I think you’ll get along swimmingly. 

Pen took one look at paper and said, 
“Yes, look – he has much potential.” 
Paper took one look at pen and said, 
“Yeah, she seems to get straight to the point.” 

Sarah Kay once said, 
“Because there is nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.” 

See, there was nothing we could do, 
No spell we could weave
No equation we could solve
No path of bread crumbs we could leave
To make it so they wouldn’t revolve
Around each other until the dying embers of this world faded to ash. 

Pen will always meet paper.
Even if, in between, sometimes, there is a dash.

John Green once wrote, 
“The marks humans leave are too often scars.” 

Scars on a page, like slanted writing,
Like stalks of grass bending in the wind,
Like melodies and harmonies blending as you sing.
But, paper’s whole purpose is to bruise. 

And pen? She’s abusive. 
And all of this? It’s all conducive 
To me. 

Walt Whitman once wrote,
“I contain multitudes.” 

What he didn’t say is that these multitudes?
These universes
These stanzas and verses 
These plots, places, and persons

They want out. They need out.
No writer wants to contain multitudes. 
We want to expel our multitudes.
And that is why…Hello Pen, - Meet Paper.