Happy New Year!
and happy winter
“The significant story possesses more awareness than the writer writing it. The significant story is always greater than the writer writing it. This is the absurdity, the disorienting truth, the question that is not even a question, this is the koan of writing.” — Joy Williams
February 3
Writing As A Wisdom Project will meet next on Saturday February 3, from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm, in Greenfield.
Space will be limited so please register promptly if you would like to join us. To register, leave a comment here, or email Catherine at neighborhoodzen@gmail.com.
Combining meditation in the Zen tradition with the practice of imaginative writing, Writing As A Wisdom Project invites intimate and creative study of the mind. Engaging playfully with language, we write together from prompts and read aloud, listen, and respond to one another’s words. Our writings and responses are explorations, and our conversations are based in imaginative insight rather than craft or critique. The day is appropriate for participants at any level of literary or meditation experience. Meditation guidance will be offered as needed.
Please bring paper and pens, even if you are accustomed to composing on a keyboard. Please arrive by 9:15 to get settled, so that we can begin promptly at 9:30. We will share lunch and everyone is encouraged to bring something (vegetarian) to share with others. We will close the day with a final period of sitting meditation, followed by tea and treats.
A contribution of $20 is suggested. Any donation is welcome but not required.
For further details or to register, please leave a comment here, or email Catherine at neighborhoodzen@gmail.com.
Looking ahead, for those already filling their calendars, our spring gathering will be a full day, Saturday May 11, from 9 am to 5 pm.
“The writer must not really know what he is knowing, what he is learning to know when he writes, which is more than the knowing of it. A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.” — Joy Williams
