Magical Memoir Moments
Writing Down the Bones: Slow and Dumb
I remember reading this breakthrough book soon after it was published in the late 1980’s. I don’t remember how I bought the book, and I don’t have the old copy on my shelf, so I may have loaned or given it away, Mostly, I remember how I felt after reading it. High! I had never…
Spiritual Autobiography Workshop II
Yesterday I led a second workshop on spiritual autobiography at my church. Most of the people who attended the first one came back, and about ten new folks showed up also. The big table was full! We shared a meal together, recalling rituals from our childhoods–mealtime prayers both serious and comical, night-time prayers. We talked…
A Second Workshop on Spiritual Autobiography
Tomorrow I lead a small group of colleagues in a workshop much like the one I taught at my church several months ago. I will again use the Marilyn Chandler McEntyre’s essay published in Weavings. But this time I will also talk a little about Tristine Rainer’s book,Your Life as Story, which I am enjoying…
Living the Questions
“Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.” –Rainer Maria Rilke I am trying to go deeper with my understanding of this famous quote, which I loved from the time I first read it in Letters to a Young Poet. Like most mothers,…
Creating a Space: Preparing for a Writer's Workshop, Part Two
Wallace Stegner once said that you can’t teach writing but you can awaken it. That’s what I hope for in the class I will teach next Monday. We begin with creating space and thinking about the environment, both of the physical space and the social, emotional, and spiritual safety within that place. To teach is…
A Workshop on Reflective Writing
Next Monday I will conduct the first of a series of four 1.5-hour-long workshops at the Fetzer Institute, the organization for which I work. Our founder, John E. Fetzer, believed that we need to be the work in order to do the work. He was a visionary leader who intuited the needs of the future…
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