☀️ Rafter Digest (08/31/24)
This week's roundup!
Rafter Digest (published every Saturday) is one of the newsletters of The Raft, the online community of author Phyllis Cole-Dai. We Rafters ride the river of life buoyed by music, poetry, and other arts along with open spiritual practice. Most everything here is free, but patrons (paid subscribers) get some special perks because Phyllis is extra grateful for their support. Sign up here:
☀️ My novel’s birthday is Wednesday!
Watch for Singing Stick goodies in your inbox!
Care to join Poets On The Raft?
Poets on The Raft (POTR), one of our free Rafter groups, is opening five seats in the circle. Care to join? All varieties of experience are welcome—new poets, dabblers, old hands . . .
POTR meets by Zoom at 6PM Central on the second and fourth Wednesday evenings of each month (7PM ET, 5PM MT, 4PM PT). Leadership varies. This fall the group will be facilitated by .
POTR is a safe, receptive space in which you can . . .
bring one of your original poems at any point in its development
request the kind of group feedback that will best support your creative process (for example: encouragement only, or careful critique)
Seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Contact me at phyllis@phylliscoledai.com if interested. If you miss out, I’ll add you to a waiting list.
Tuesday evening work better for you?
I’m mulling whether to form a second POTR circle that would meet bimonthly by Zoom on Tuesday evening, hosted by yet another Rafter. If interested, please contact me at phyllis@phylliscoledai.com.
☀️ Save the dates!
“The Heart of Who We Are”: Exploring Compassion through Poetry with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. A four-session series bookending US Election Day: October 23 and 30, November 6 and 13, 2024, at 6:00-8:00PM Central (7-9PM Eastern, 5-7PM Mountain, 4-6PM Pacific). Details coming in late September.
This Week’s Staying Power
No issue this week.
This Week’s Daily Boosts
#806: Gonna lay a seed in the broken earth
#807: Wanna love and treat you right
#808: Look what turns up
#809: Rise to the light and fall again
#810: Like a string of pearls
Last Week’s Events & News
This Week’s Event Replays
Next Week’s Events
Wednesday: My novel’s birthday! Watch for goodies in your inbox!
Poetry Pick-Me-Up (Zoom, Thursday, 12PM Central). A casual weekly gathering for poetry-sharing 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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See you next week!
