Guided Writing Session Directory
Below, you will find recordings for each Guided Writing Session dating back to August 2021 when the sessions began.
Take a moment to review the Usage and Guidelines Folder below for information on how to post work and use the directory.
Use the Independent Entries Folder for submissions not specific to a monthly program or Guided Writing Session.
More About Guided Writing Sessions
Guided Writing Session: November 14
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The session writing prompts are included below.
Writing Prompts
1. What do you find extraordinary about this ordinary moment? What’s magical, uncanny, or invisible to the ordinary eye? Be specific.
- What do you find miraculous about what's happening right now?
- What fascinates you about being alive? Be specific.
- What inspires you about your own life?
2. Describe a moment of being awed by beauty. What amazed you about this experience? Be specific.
- What was so beautiful about that moment? Please be as specific as you can be.
- How does beauty affect well being?
- Was there any uncanny about this moment of beauty?
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I have since last night been thinking about your question on beauty and how it affects well-being. Nobody has asked this of me before (and whoa, it is a great question). It makes me wonder, are some of us more drawn to beauty and awe? Does beauty bring more joy and love of life to our days? There is this pleasure we take in seeing a thing of beauty... even though it's defined differently for each of us. Whether it be visual arts with colors leaving a lasting impression, or performing arts with bodies moving in pleasing succession, the haunting beauty of a soprano voice, or crafting a living space of comfort and natural materials.
Each day, after the chaos of morning routines, my 10 year-old is the last to leave the house in a flurry--usually leaving a tornado of dirty socks, plates with food, glasses, pencils, and sweatshirts in his wake. Something in me cannot help it, day after day I straighten the place up, light a candle, set some flowers on the table. Sometimes it seems so ridiculous, taking 30 or 40 minutes to "set the stage" before I get to work. Yet, there is something to it; the way it changes the course of my day. I think this is the something in me that craves the possibility conveyed by clear, clean spaces, the momentary taking in of color, of geometric design, of movement within the space. I think it brings joy, it brings new energy and ideas... I also think perhaps beauty can be found in the most unlikely places..