Events & News (12/30/23)
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☀️ Tomorrow (Sunday) I’ll send the December Dig (set of creativity prompts). Available to all patrons. Sample a dig here.
☀️ “Waging Peace” Deep Dive starts MONDAY, January 1st! Available to all patrons. Details here.
Catch up! (event replays)
No events this week due to the holidays.
Next week on The Raft . . .
Creatives’ Coffee (Zoom, Wednesday, 4:00-5:00PM Central). A casual conversation group for Rafters who regard life as a creative practice and/or who like to “make stuff” (whether for fun or as a profession). You’ll find oodles of companionship, support, inspiration, and cross-fertilization of ideas!
Two slight changes starting in January:
An hour long instead of 90 minutes (4:00-5:00PM Central)
A creative focus for discussion at each gathering
Hop on the Zoom at this link. Can’t make it? Watch for the video replay in this newsletter.
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 as you’re comfortable in our informal but wholehearted conversation. Can’t make it? Watch for the video replay in this newsletter!
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My heartfelt thanks to these patrons for their recent gifts in support of The Raft: Kristabeth Atwood, Rosanne Cassidy, Carol Fichter, Ellen O’Connell, Therese OFallon, Cindy Page, Mary Palm, and Rose Yu.
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I never really wondered
how my journey of aging what look
what it would and could offer me
and how I would respond to it
Now I do
Peaks and Valleys
Twists and Turns
Change and Challenges
And gratefully
My heart and soul willingly
ride along every mile of it
with me... geri
In cleaning my basement for some hopeful furniture donations to Habitat for Humanity, I realized a deep need to divest myself of paper paraphernalia from my career as a librarian. I’ve done winnowing several times and at 71 I harbor no interest in a workplace (I do enjoy part-time work in a public library, a major change from a high school library from which I retired).
While lying in bed last night I thought that this divesting may bring a poem on. We’ll see.
The sense of clarity and closure will be cleansing. My identity does not depend on holding on to these physical reminders of my past professional life.