RSS FeedHi Writers! I just returned from speaking at the National Association of Poetry Therapy conference in Washington, DC--all fired up about the love of writing! There's nothing like a shot or two of poetry to enliven my sensibilities about language, story, imagery, metaphor, and meaning. Whew, that is a mouthful, but the truth is that writing your memoir stories and capturing a moment in a poem are not so different. In each memoir story, you're looking at a moment that created change and transformation … [Read more...]
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Writing Your Memoir — Inspiration & Education
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Mother Realm
January 14, 2009 By NAMW Web Team
Mother Realm Women Bursting buttons on their dresses as they breathe deeply, opening themselves to the expanse and freedom of the universe. Women In the kitchen, peeling carrots, snapping beans, whipping potatoes, hands in flour, rolling pie crust thin across the board, talking, laughing, crying, aprons tied around necks. Come away. Come away to the sea! Fly out on the ocean where no boundaries constrain, where each lies on her own island of the soul enraptured in the summer sun and … [Read more...]
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There Is In Each of Us a Longing
January 14, 2009 By NAMW Web Team
There Is In Each of Us A Longing There is in each of us a longing to be seen to be heard to be touched to love to be loved. There is in each of us a longing to feel full, to look out upon the world in the new morning and to be filled with the fragrance of fresh grass, the perfection of a flower covered with drops of dew the look of love in another's eyes. There is in each of us a longing to belong to be inside that circle of life, turning on its axis sometimes to the pinnacle of happiness, … [Read more...]
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