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Writing for Healing and Discernment by the Sea: A VerbTribe Intensive for the New Year

January 24-29, 2016 SOLD OUT. Email support@pattidigh.com if you would like to be on the wait list or are interested in a future such retreat. Start your 2016 off right with a tribe of writers and creatives by the sea. This “wild card retreat” was created to help all of us write …

poetry wednesday: monsoon

Today is Wednesday. That means poetry here on 37days. And today’s poem is by a member of the VerbTribe online writing course that is ending tomorrow (and that ending is simply a new beginning for these amazing writers). I have been blessed to be their guide for these past 37 …

write like your hair is on fire.

I never knew teaching an online writing class could be such a wholehearted, full-bodied experience. But it is. If you are drawn to knowing who you are, where your creativity resides inside you, and what stops you from expressing yourself like your hair is on fire, I hope you will …

poets watch the clouds.

                      Seeing More – Discoveries? i watch the clouds drifting slowly by the trees trembling so slightly bending, leaning, straightening i watch the sun dry the deck, little by little warming the wood where my dog sleeps at my feet …

Poets teach us to let go.

Letting You Go I loved you once. on those endless summer days in the pool, barefoot walks on hot asphalt to the corner store cigarettes for you, grape Mr. Freeze for me. eating your special Sunday scrambled eggs with ketchup planting backyard rows of majestic purple irises and early morning …

I finally showed up.

VerbTribe has been an extraordinary journey for me as a teacher, and for those who have joined it. As we close our first 37-day journey into writing, I am featuring writing from VerbTribe members here on 37days. In response to a photograph I provided to the VerbTribe, writer Terry Lynn …

in the place with no shoes.

VerbTribe has been an extraordinary journey for me as a teacher, and for those who have joined it. As we close our first 37-day journey into writing, I am featuring writing from VerbTribe members here on 37days. Writer KT Patrick Bothwell offered us this beautiful piece of writing about a …

it is an infinite loop of offering

VerbTribe has been an extraordinary journey for me as a teacher, and for those who have joined it. As we close our first 37-day journey into writing, I am featuring writing from VerbTribe members here on 37days. Writer Ket Parker offered us this beautiful piece of writing about her witness. …

have i given too little?

VerbTribe has been an extraordinary journey for me as a teacher, and for those who have joined it. As we close our first 37-day journey into writing, I am featuring writing from VerbTribe members here on 37days. Writer Billie Stingley offered us this beautiful piece of writing about giving. Have …

writing is a choice.

VerbTribe has been an extraordinary journey for me as a teacher, and for those who have joined it. As we close our first 37-day journey into writing, I am featuring writing from VerbTribe members here on 37days. Writer Sara Rae Lancaster offered us this food for thought about writing. You …