The way to get on the wall is, surprisingly, to not want to get on the wall. In fact, you’re not the one getting on the wall — the words are. And the words come from you and the words are for everyone.

You do a little digging and examine the places the words come from. Is it a playful place or is it an absurd or empathetic one? You’ll find these places and you’ll dig deep. Then you’ll listen and invite something out into the world.

And, like all good writers (because that’s what you’re doing) it’s important to be a good reader and a good listener. Read signs and handwritten cards and headstones and liner notes. Listen to what your kids whisper at night to each other in the dark and the what the man in line is saying on his phone.

You’ll take the words you’ve found with your ears and your eyes and you take the words that you’ve excavated from your own heart, shuffle them and toss them and break them and mend them — and who knows what will happen. Maybe you’ll find your three words, or they’ll find you…
and they’ll ask to be shared with the rest of us.