I attended a business meeting at the kids' school this past Tuesday night, and although I was reluctant to go, I came away from the time entirely blessed and encouraged.
January Journal: Day 7
I spent an unknown numbers of hours, starting sometime in September and ending at the end of December, copying down quotes from Writing Down the Bones, the brilliant book by Natalie Goldberg on creating a writing practice. So much of what Goldberg writes wakes me up in the same way that Annie Dillard does.
A Whole Thing for Her
Write Terribly and Feel Great
About a month ago, I wrote a post on the connection that letter-writing has fostered between myself and others. I didn't mention it then, but most of that blog post was excerpted from one of the three sample chapters I wrote this past summer for the book proposal I was working on. I don't know if my book will ever get finished or published. Even if it does, there is no need to save what I wrote for "some day."
