June 1, 2022. I am teaching a weeklong Writing Intensive online. The Intensive is taking place during this time of extreme chaos. Writers are responsible for meeting the times; that is why we are gathering. We open by honoring and grieving the 19 children and two teachers who were massacred in Uvalde, some of whom were buried yesterday and today. A participant weeps for her teenage son whose schoolmate committed suicide very publicly a few weeks ago. (During our day of silence, she learns another 16-year-old schoolmate of her son has been arrested for trying to enlist fellow students to engage in a mass shooting and bombing for which he has been gathering arms and ammunition.) Then we speak of the ongoing brutal war in Ukraine. 243 children have been killed so far in the war, 446 have been wounded and 139 are missing. A member of our community has just arrived in Holland to negotiate travel visa details after rescuing her grandmother from a Ukrainian border town several hours from Bucharest. Two members of our small group of twenty have become ill, one with a virulent flu, another with Covid, while for another Covid has just erupted in her household.
My heart feels your words deeply. I'm grateful for them. I send you love and support, as a fellow earth dweller, visionary, poet, healer. Deep respect for restorative writing and dreamtime. x
Congratulations Deena, sending you love and respect, Constance Buck
My heart feels your words deeply. I'm grateful for them. I send you love and support, as a fellow earth dweller, visionary, poet, healer. Deep respect for restorative writing and dreamtime. x