I decided to take my head out of a box and my fingers from around the tape dispenser to take a breathe on my blog. My life is surrounded by boxes lately and it will continue to be surrounded by boxes for a while. After 3 1/3 years, I am moving out of my apartment […]
Today I had a forty-five minute lunch. After warming up the dish I brought, I decided I would rather eat in my car than in that staff room. So I got in my car, turned on the ignition and headed for the freeway. I drove. I just drove. I needed to be away from, well,
The last half of this week, my books kept coming up in different conversations. On Wednesday, a friend from the theatre shared with me that his daughter, who has my second book, used one of the poems for a school report. Then on Thursday, I ran into a friend from the seminary at the school
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Hello friends. Were you wondering where I had gone? Life has been very full lately and I am learning the importance of margins because I don’t feel like I have them. I know things are really busy and intense right now so I am trying to work through that at the same time as trying
The last day of QUIP was a fun time to hang out and say goodbye to our friends. I hope you all enjoyed our time together. I look forward to talking with you about promotions for Spirit Rising! This is the upstairs in the house the young adults slept in. It was a great house
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Saturday morning we had our worship service led by Harriet who passed around white paper in the shape of doves. On our paper, she instructed us to write our dreams and hopes for the book then release them into the “sky”. May the book have a life of its own just like the birds. Lunch
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Yesterday was a very full day. After breakfast, I led a workshop on Writing as Prayer. Personally, I love workshops that are more interactive and so I lead my own in that manner, a style the attendees appreciated. We had good discussion and good questions. I really enjoyed the time we got to spend together.
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Between the blogging panel, the Writing as Prayer workshop, and all the events for the book, I haven’t had much time to post on here. However, things have slowed down now and while I listen to this workshop, Poetry as Ministry which right now feels like balm to my soul, I’m going to post pictures
Here are yesterday’s pictures: Emily and her house where I blogged from. Mary, Emily, and I drove to Richmond together. Our evening session last night with Tom, the Quaker archivist at Earlham. Several of the young adults going out for a night on the town! There was a plethera of laughter! This one is actually
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