Events & News (07/08/23)
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Tell us: What’s one of the biggest mysteries you’ve been exploring lately in this “mystery school” called life?
Signed up yet for “Poems, Prayers, & Promises”?
“Poems, Prayers, & Promises”: A Deep Dive
Taking place via email August 1-August 31 (weekdays only)
Concluding with an optional Zoom celebration on September 5
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This week’s feature from my store is a service I provide called “creative companioning.”
Want to make creative expression part of your spiritual practice?
Anxious to set loose your creative spirit?
Paralyzed by self-doubt or perfectionism?
Experienced but feeling stuck?
Needing fresh insight on a project?
Wondering how to share or sell your writing?
Hire me as your creative companion! I’ll listen with care and compassion. Ask stimulating, intuitive questions. Offer playful perspective and sometimes a dash of know-how. Encourage, with patience.
Your investment: $100/session, or $325 for four. Remember to use your Rafter discount code at checkout to enjoy 15% off. (Forgot the code? Contact me.)
Mark your calendars! Coming attractions!
You heard it here first! More details to follow.
☀️ NEW: “Poems, Prayers, & Promises,” our first “deep dive” on The Raft, will take place in August. Details here.
☀️ REMINDER: Our first “Show & Share” on The Raft is underway via our Chat space. Details below.
☀️ REMINDER: “All the Honey: The Poems Behind the Poems,” a poetry experience with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer (6:30-8:00PM Central, September 13, paid Zoom event). Details to come.
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Participate in July’s “Show & Share”!
“Show & Share” is a fun online gallery of creative projects (finished or in progress) done by you and your fellow Rafters.
Define “creative” any way you’d like: poetry, gardening, quilting, photography, crocheting, cooking, music, journaling, painting, reinventing your life . . .
This “Show & Share” will run July 1-31.
Add your original creative work to this chat thread (text, pictures, links).
Comment on the creative efforts of other Rafters in the thread.
By posting your own work, you’ll be entered in a random drawing for a free gift from my store at the end of July. (Each Rafter can win once per year.)
This is a group effort! At least 20 Rafters must post in July in order for the drawing to be held. Let’s create together!
Next week on The Raft . . .
Poetry Pick-Me-Up (Zoom, Thursday, 12-1PM Central). A casual weekly gathering for poetry-sharing, celebration, and discussion. Hop on the Zoom at this link. Bring a poem you like to read to the group. Or, just come to listen to poems offered by other Rafters and to participate in informal but wholehearted conversation. Can’t make it? Watch for the video replay in this newsletter!
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Grateful, grateful!
My heartfelt thanks to these folks for their recent gifts in support of The Raft: Vicki Capestany, Joan Garrabrant, Julie Hanson, Stephen Johnson, Rona Klein, Luise Levy, Susan Long, Suzanne Offit, Susan Parsley, Lana Phillips, Catherine Rees, Lorna Reid, Julie Rinard, Julie Roehm, Susan Thornton, Deborah Tremont, boistree, jackieblang, jenfox, and nduffyhennig.
Whew! That's all for now. Stay well. Stay witty. Stay tuned into your true spot and create from your radiant, beautiful self.
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The mystery of love continues to, well, mystify me. That and a good recipe for champagne alfredo sauce. Regarding love, more and more I think of it as letting go, of loosening the knot of the ego and slipping free.
The mystery of healing and walking 😅 The more tired I am the more of a mystery walking becomes.