The Writing Life Too

Writing Recharge workshop, January 23

Gloomy skies that promise rain. Yesterday I went for a walk above the Willamette River about midday and noticed how everything seemed so wintertime still. Now, we don't have snow here, but there was no wind, and little traffic and the world seemed to be holding its breath, waiting.  And then I stopped at the neighborhood library and on my way in noticed a line of empty strollers parked along the building. The sight was so colorful and surprising somehow. And I realized that it was the design element of the strollers that I liked and how I could imagine the mothers and children claiming them (there was a story hour going on) and then rolling along to their lives. Do you notice design elements as you go about your days? 

For people living in the Northwest I'm teaching a fabulous, whup-your-ass, stir-your-imagination, instill-hope kind of workshop Writing Recharge on January 23 in Portland. It's about finding the time, mining your passions, and living the writing life day after day so the projects get done, the dream is lived, not sighed over. Write me at jessicapage at spiritone.com for details. I've been teaching this workshop in January for years now because its truly an energizing way to begin a year and decade.