In Writing as a Path to Awakening, the renowned poet, writer, and teacher, Albet Flynn DeSilver shows how to use meditation to cultivate true depth in your own writing – so your words reveal layers of profound emotional insight and revelation that inspire and move your readers. Writing as a Path to Awakening Writing calls on…
Outside My Window #WordsMatter
Welcome to the first post of our first #WordsMatter Blog Hop. We’re looking forward to reading your take on the prompt: Outside my window. Outside My Window My first response to this prompt was to write about how Nature can inspire writing. The Frangipani Creative studio is located in a lovely part of the city…
The Beginning Is Always Today #wordsmatter
The beginning is always today! What a powerful thought in 5 simple words. The beginning is always today. Mary Wollstonecraft As many of you must have realized, I’m in the process of moving posts over from Write Tribe to this blog. I’m trying to make life simpler for myself, but sometimes end up complicating things.…
June Review: The Writing Life
In this collection of short essays, Annie Dillard—the author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and An American Childhood—illuminates the dedication, absurdity, and daring that characterize the existence of a writer. A moving account of Dillard’s own experience, The Writing Life offers deep insight into one of the most mysterious professions. Annie Dillard (born April 30, 1945) is an American author,…
Author Interview: Leah Griffith
I have been reading Leah Griffith‘s blog, Eating Life Raw, for a while now. When she announced, last year, that her book, Cosette’s Tribe had been published, I knew I had to read it. What I wasn’t prepared for was a book that would touch my heart so deeply and keep me awake for two…
6 Months Into 2019 #ZombieBlogHop
Good morning everyone and welcome to the Zombie Blog Hop! Why Zombies in June, you ask? A WhatsApp conversation about the need to get our blogs active and buzzing, led to someone saying that we were presently like Zombies. Which in turn led to the Zombie Blog Hop (shout out to Holly Jahangiri!). Our prompt…