Lane von Herzen: Email to the Canadian Human Rights Commission, August 7, 2025

My Third Novel's Conclusion, My Heartbreak

My heart begins to break when I think about completing this particular book -- because this narrative has sustained me like no other story I've known. It's both more personal and more universal than my other works. But beyond memory and archetype, it's a cri-de-coeur about needing to become the person one is destined to be. And in the writing, I have met my own life's work, my own fated journey -- having the sense all the while that the pages are suffused with a resonance, an energy, an electrified field that defies explanation. Writers hope and pray to be overtaken by a work in this way -- to be conscripted into passionate service of a profound story. To experience it even once in a lifetime seems a great privilege. I still have several months before this novel is complete, and this constitutes my reprieve. Because I'm not ready for the beauty to end.

Thursday, August 7, 2025

Email to the Canadian Human Rights Commission, August 7, 2025

The following email was sent to the Canadian Human Rights Commission from lanemacwilliams@gmail.com at 2:42 PM today, August 7, 2025.

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To the Canadian Human Rights Commission:

It is my understanding that documentation regarding my case has been provided to the Commission by the Office of the Inspector General Hotline of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Will the CHRC, not the ATIP division, please confirm for me that that is the case?

I will appreciate that follow up regarding this important matter on an urgent basis.

Sincerely yours,