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remember the laughter
[The following 'found poem' is constructed from ‘read-back’ lines from last week's writers on the theme of 'laughter.' Sometimes the resulting poem reflects the mood and theme of the week; sometimes it...
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a mother’s strength, revisited
Last night, I sat in a circle with seven women inside Vermont’s women’s prison talking about the roots of Mother’s Day. I read Julia Ward Howe’s “Mother’s Day Proclamation – 1870 (watch dramatic...
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“blind to the future, she does not believe I exist”
This past week, I offered a challenging writing prompt which involved a look back to younger self from the present; and suggested using third person ‘she’ to refer to the younger self and first-person...
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for peace to become reality . . .
Yesterday, we held our fourth monthly writing group inside Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility for pairs of women and their community mentors, many of whom travel great distance to attend this...
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peace outside the wire
In our monthly group for women with mentors outside the prison, writing is but a small portion of the time together. It is a seed that starts a common discussion between mentor and mentee. After paired...
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geography of Rumi’s wisdom
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase “each...
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cutting paths
Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet. – Thich Nhat Hanh In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go. Jack...
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the stories inside
In Asian languages, the word for ‘mind’ and the word for ‘heart’ are same. So if you’re not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you’re not really understanding it. Compassion and...
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in preparation
“Advent is a winter training camp for those who desire peace. By reflection and prayer, by reading and meditation, we can make our hearts a place where a blessing of peace would desire to abide.” “Life...
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