Two: dosie dough your own.
Three: The little yellow giraffes on your third birthday cake at Uncle Irv and Aunt Teresa's endlessly, fenceless, plush green backyard in St Louis Park in June.
Four: My favorite number. Redish orange. My soccer uniform when I was on Alan's Angels.
Five: Jude and I share synesthesia, a sixth sense, which means we mix up and blend up our senses. We argue about what color five is: Mint green, I say. No, muddy brown, he says.
Six bears in a dish with bubblegum
VII Emerald green, translucent. Best year of my life.
8 everyone's favorite number; why is that? Is it the resemblance to infinity? Because it is bluish purple?
nine red, deep red.
Ten: On my tenth birthday, Ma post it noted a huge note on the closed kitchen door that said "You are now in the double digits. Congratulations!" I wondered about that as I rushed open the door and walked into the light, louvered kitchen nook and took my seat at the retro table in my yellow spinny chair across from Ben who wasn't there because everyone had already left for the day and it wasn't even ten yet.
Sometimes the craziest writes we have here together at the Beach are the ones when we have 4-5 minutes max until everyone has to be out the door and we pick a response write beginning with any chosen word or topic somehow related to what has just been workshopped or shared and I say, Go! DON'T THINK! GO! I'm not sure how we got on numbers the other day, but what a write it was. You oughta try it! You simply cannot do it wrong.
WRITE WITH ME? Pick any random number and start there, numbering as high as you wish. Or... number backwards for a twist (5-4-3-2-1). Or: Try your phone number, or the one you had as a kid (2-1-3-4-7-4-2-7-0-1) and see what instant thoughts/memories/nonsense/ appears. As always, follow your energy, see where it wants to go. For starters, limit yourself to 1-3 minutes, building up to 5-10, eventually taking as much time as you wish. You never know what's hidden beneath the numbers!
And speaking of things hidden beneath things, I am overjoyed to offer a couple new 4-week workshops this fall:
Don't Go Back to Sleep: The Words Beneath the Words: Introduction to Poetry Therapy
Thursday Mornings 10am-noon, September 4, 11, 18, & 25 2014 $150
Awakening. Love. Kindness. The present moment. Mindfulness. These are a few of the themes we'll explore as we launch into the words beneath the words of beloved poets Rumi and Naomi Shihab Nye. Open to all writers, healers, and anyone and all beings curious about how poetry can free the unfelt, the unspoken, while creating spaciousness in the body, mind, and of course, on the page. We'll read and write together, discuss, arrive at our own insights and inspirations, create essays, poems, etc, and see what happens when we enter into the endlessly flowing stream beneath the words.
WRITING VULNERABLY
4-class series meets monthly Wednesdays 9:30-noon
Sept 24, Oct 22, Nov 19, Dec 17 2014 $150
Lately we've been hearing a lot about the health and quality of life benefits of becoming more aware of our own vulnerability and the importance of opening ourselves to this powerful human feeling, yet what and how does that look like in a fear based world that increasingly emphasizes all the reasons we ought be scared, shut down, and hide? This workshop explores how we can begin to hold both truths, what it looks like, and the importance to write (and live) our truth in the face of our own lives, no matter how scary. Write vulnerably, live deeply. Cultivate vulnerability on and off the page for a whole life story.
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