Events & News (07/15/23)
You're "silently drawn"
The Saturday Spark
Tell us: Is there something you “really love” whose “strange pull” you’re resisting?
Deep Dive reminder:
Sign up for “Poems, Prayers, & Promises” before August 1
Taking place via email August 1-August 31 (weekdays only)
Concluding with an optional Zoom celebration on September 5
☀️ Details here.
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This week’s feature from my store is Beneath the Same Stars: A Novel of the 1862 US-Dakota War.
August 18, 1862. On the Sioux reservation in southwestern Minnesota, Indians desperate for food and freedom rise up against whites in the region. Sarah Wakefield, the wife of a physician, is taken captive with her two babies by the warrior Ćaske. As war rages, little does she know how entwined their lives will become.
This is the gripping story of two people, caught between worlds, who are willing to do almost anything to defend those they care about—including each other. But the drama is bigger than themselves. Tragic forces have been set in motion . . .
☀️Awarded an Editor’s Choice by the Historical Novel Society
Remember to enter your Rafter discount (“rafter15”) at checkout to receive 15% off your order.
Participate in July’s “Show & Share”!
The Raft is currently host its first “Show & Share,” 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 . . .
The “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 . . .
No regular free groups will meet next week, as I’m out of studio.
Grateful, grateful!
My heartfelt thanks to these folks for their recent gifts in support of The Raft: Margo Casey, Dianne Colborne, Teri Cornell, Don Dichmann, Joanne Draper, Annette Grunseth, Donna Hilbert, Maureen Kane, Diana Leslie, Deb Parvin, Mary Rowin, Joanne Snyder, Jan Vernor-Howard, Caroline Walles, jasl, knowthyneighbor, lirving, Sara, and ynor.
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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What a gift you are, Phyllis, to this hurting world. Thank you for YOU.
Changes caused by aging….a time and a season for things….I try to hold gratitude, instead of sadness, for those past joys I no longer have the energy for.