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April 30, 2015

Inspired by Literary Grannies: Z is for Zoe Akins

Zoe Akins, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright who was also a revered poet and screen writer. She influenced many and is remembered by few

I first came to know Zoe Akins simply because her name started with the letter “Z”. Even today, years later after I first read of her I am barely scratching the surface of a woman who is a remarkable literary granny.

She is one of those women whose work has been woefully underappreciated.

Listen to these credentials:

She wrote forty plays, 17 of which were produced on Broadway. One won her a Pulitzer Prize. Astonishing to me is none of her plays have been revived on Broadway.

She was a Pulitzer Prize winner for her play. The Old Maid, and adaptation of the novel by fellow Literary Granny Edith Wharton. It went on to become a movie starring Bette Davis. In watching the preview for the movie, one might be distracted by the vintage quality of performance, props and costumes, but the words Zoe wrote are timeless.

Katharine Hepburn’s first Academy Award was won in a film written by Zoe Akins, Morning Glory in 1933.

I would like to offer you inspiration today from one of her most famous poems,

I Am the Wind

I am the wind that wavers,
You are the certain land;
I am the shadow that passes
Over the sand.

I am the leaf that quivers,
You, the unshaken tree;
You are the stars that are steadfast,
I am the sea.

You are the light eternal-
Like a torch I shall die.
You are the surge of deep music,
I but a cry!

Questions for Contemplation:

Would you consider yourself to be more like the wind or the certain land? What makes you make that assertion?

Read the poem aloud and then make a list of examples from your life that fit the various lines. For example, when has your life been like a torch? When has it been like a light eternal? Jot your discoveries on a sheet of paper.

Sentence starters:

I am the sea, the wind, the shadow - and I….

You are…..

Prompts for the end of the day and integration throughout the week:

Today I was the wind when I….

Today I was a surge of deep music when I….

Today I was steadfast when…

The quality I would most like to be in this poem is…..

Tomorrow I would like to exemplify the quality of….

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This blog post is a part of April's Blogging from A to Z Challenge. Visit here daily in April to be inspired by literary grannies across time.

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Julie Jordan Scott is at the Microphone writing a collaborative poem during a poetry performance

mixed-media artist whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming in Spring, 2015 and beyond.

To contact Julie to schedule a Writing or Creative Life Coaching Session, call or text her at 661.444.2735.

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April 29, 2015

Yet Another Way to Put More Fun into Your Writing!

Let's make writing practice fun (playful, joyful, free, exhilarating, etc etc etc)

I love coming up with ways to make writing fun so much I made it this week's question of the week on the Writing Camp Facebook page. Pop over and respond (and like the page, too, if you haven't yet!)

I have been known to say, “If it isn’t fun, I’m not doing it.”

This isn’t always true. In fact, I do a lot of things I find less than pleasant at the request of someone I either love and respect (or both) AND I know my life is much sweeter when I focus on tasks I can do while simultaneously having a darned good time.

Sometimes on the outer crust, a darned good time looks impossible. That’s when the real fun kicks in.

I don’t know if this was what Mary Oliver had in mind when she wrote, “'Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable,” but this definitely fits the bill.

I occasionally host something I call “Passion Activator Friday.” Other people call the almost identical activity “integrity day” but that sounds so heavy and so not fun at all that I shift it about to make it ridiculously fun.

During Passion Activator Friday we start with a to-do list and throughout the day we check stuff off and cheer others along with their lists and activities. It is a fabulous way to be super productive. Energizing doesn’t begin to describe it.

Yet in my mind “integrity day” sounds like something I should do, something the well-behaved, always wearing matched socks people do.

Passion Activator Friday sounds like something people who laugh too loud do. People like me, who get messy and make mistakes and speak playfully and understand grace and forgiveness and the occasional bout of forgetfulness.

Because I love to write, I can’t imagine anyone finding it anything but fun, but I have come to learn some people see writing as a drudgery. This literally makes my own heart sink deeper in my chest so naturally I do what I do best: think up ways to make it fun.

That’s what you see here: morning pages met mixed media glued onto a page. I wrote my standard two pages free writing on my morning pages and then on a third page I cut painted book page petals and created a flower. In the center I tore a fresh book page and circled two prompt words “moment” and “wagged” and then wrote on that page on that seemingly disconnected topic.

I remembered doing QiGong in our women’s story circle and I especially remembered how we sometimes “wag our tail” like a happy puppy or like a duck, drying herself off after a swim. When I look around the circle in those times I see smiles on each face, totally present to how silly we are and how tremendous we are, how free we are in that moment.

That’s what wagging a moment is about, actually. Being present, being alive, letting passion be what you feel whether the outside world would label that passion good or bad or horrible or ecstatic.

This realization? So much fun! You reading these words? More fun still!

This is yet another reason why I love writing. And hope from this moment, you will love it even a smidge more, too.

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Julie Jordan Scott inspires people to experience artistic rebirth via her programs, playshops, books, performances and simply being herself out in the world. She is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy-extraordinaire and mixed-media artist whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming in Spring, 2015 and beyond.

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April 26, 2015

U is for Ursula Leguin - Inspired by Literary Grannies

Ursula Leguin is a writing powerhouse who is ridiculously brainy and purposefully invokes the curiosity and intellect of her readers. She is a writer who makes me want to be better at my writing craft.

She reminds me of the importance of the reader/audience in my storytelling. “The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”

Prompts for contemplation and writing:

What do your unread stories want your readers/audience to hear?

What is alive in your writing and/or story?

Sentence starters:

When I think of my story/writing as little black marks on wood pulp, what comes up for me is…

My story feels most alive when…..

Reflection at the end of the day:

How can I connect with my reader/listener?

Is it best for my process to prepare for the reader/listener on the first draft or later in the creative process?

Bonus layer to this thread, a Rilkean quote to add:

“To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”

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This blog post is a part of April's Blogging from A to Z Challenge. Visit here daily in April to be inspired by literary grannies across time.

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Julie Jordan Scott is at the Microphone writing a collaborative poem during a poetry performance

mixed-media artist whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming in Spring, 2015 and beyond.

To contact Julie to schedule a Writing or Creative Life Coaching Session, call or text her at 661.444.2735.

Check out the links below to follow her on a bunch of different social media channels, especially if you find the idea of a Word-Love Party bus particularly enticing.

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April 23, 2015

Video - How to Create an Insta-Writing Prompt for a Never Ending Flow of Writing Ideas

I have been writing prompts for a variety of creative uses for fifteen years now, ever since I started facilitating my first writing programs back in 2000. Today in this video, inspired by the Thoughts on Thursday Link Up at JVKom Chronicles, I do a quicky - share of how to create a never ending stream of writing prompts using whatever reading material you have on hand.

Watch here as I create more of these prompt/how-to vlogs for you so that you may both be inspired to write and inspired to start creating your own personalized writing prompts as well.

I forgot to say THOUGHTS ON THURSDAY on the video but considering my record breaking four minutes of sleep last night, I think I did pretty darned well, don't you? I hope you will link up if you have a vlog post to share OR come back next week at JVKom.com and link then.

Please share any writing you create and/or any ways you might use this prompt creation to make your blog and social media life more engaging.

I'm grateful you are here -

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April 21, 2015

P is for Phillis Wheatley: Inspired by Literary Grannies - "The muses assist my pen"

The Phillis Wheatley Monument is in Boston, part of the Boston Women's Memorial.

” WHILE an intrinsic ardor prompts to write,
The Muses promise to assist my pen.”

Phillis Wheatley

I love the idea of the muses promising to assist one’s pen. Perhaps that is every writer’s unspoken or unwritten prayer. We sit at wherever it is we sit and we pray, “Please, let my words make sense” or at least have some form of quality to preserve us and them for a time.

Phillis Wheatley was an early American poet whose distinction spreads beyond the quality of words for she was not only a woman, she was born in Africa, making her the first African American published poet in the United States of America. Most of her fame was in Europe, however, and among the biggest tragedies that befell her and fell among many freed slaves of the revolutionary era, she died penniless and alone while her husband was in debtors prison.

She did continue to write during her trying times and even got subscribers to fund a poetry collection close to her death. Her deep love of words and her continuous writing even when times got hard inspires me more than I am able to express.

Prompts for Contemplation and Writing:

Is your love of words enough to inspire you to write?

If your love of words (and the process) doesn’t inspire you, how might you call upon your version of the Muses to assist and inspire your writing?

Sentence Starters:

I would describe my muses as…

During hardships I write….

My best writing comes when…

For reflection at the end of the day:

On the average day, I am most aware of my love for….

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This blog post is a part of April's Blogging from A to Z Challenge. Visit here daily in April to be inspired by literary grannies across time.

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Julie Jordan Scott is at the Microphone writing a collaborative poem during a poetry performance

mixed-media artist whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming in Spring, 2015 and beyond.

To contact Julie to schedule a Writing or Creative Life Coaching Session, call or text her at 661.444.2735.

Check out the links below to follow her on a bunch of different social media channels, especially if you find the idea of a Word-Love Party bus particularly enticing.

Please stay in touch: Follow me on Twitter: @JulieJordanScot

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The Power of Nurture: It is for All of Us

I think I was a nurturer in the womb.

I became a nurturer most definitely after my brother was born when I was not yet fourteen months old. I hadn’t elected to walk by then, waiting until I was sixteen months old to walk because I was so “nurture hungry.”

Perhaps this is part of the reason I don’t usually expect nurturing and yet I love it so much.

Last week at my story circle we “wrote” an improvisational piece about “our other mothers.” These are the people who take care of us, who may reach out to us when we need some tenderness or caring guidance. Each woman in the circle contributed one single line to the story.

I kicked it off saying. “Once upon a time, there was a middle aged woman who always felt comforted when someone covered her lovingly with a blanket.”

Such a simple act yet so heavenly.

So motherly.

So nurturing.

When care taking is offered and received with love, nurturing is a natural outpouring. It isn't something we think about necessarily, it just happens.

When we become nurturers, we teach others to nurture us as well. It is like Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.”

We show love and nurturing when we show up, when we notice, when we choose to put someone else's needs at least as high as our own.

Nurturing is not a gender thing, it is an intentional love thing.

I was out on adventure recently and my thought of every single detail and how to take care of the needs I didn’t even know I would have. He nurtured me, like a mother, although he is very extraordinarily male who claimed he hadn't tuned into his feminine side much in his life.

He was simply being a human nurturer, intentionally showing love even as he was just being himself.

When I grade papers for students who haven’t yet mastered English, I focus on their strengths first before I critique their weaknesses. They are born with a different language and learn English as adults. I aim to nurture them into better speakers and readers and communicators. If I focused on what was wrong, I am concerned they would end their process prior to a positive completion. I choose to be a nurturer.

Nurturing isn’t only for people in “helping” professions, it is for all of us.

Emma is preparing for her senior prom. It is next weekend and she has the dress and the shoes. Next is the final prep including a plan for her hair and makeup. Today she has a friend at our house, helping her to get her make up just right. Some people might say this is over the top, that a seventeen-year-old girl should take care of it all herself.

I see it differently: making a fuss over her means I value her and want her to feel valued as well.

As a parent, nurturing a child’s sense of value and worth is one of the most important things we can do. How many adults do you know who don’t feel valued or esteemed? Ask your friends about their level of confidence. Their responses might surprise you.

As parents, nurturing goes beyond providing food, clothing and shelter. Nurturing includes compliments, redirection and teaching your child to make painful and important choices.

This morning I went to coffee at one of my favorite local haunts. The clerk told me I looked cheerful today. I though I looked warn out. My hair in a ponytail, wearing a t-shirt and capris, I didn’t think I looked like anything except my busy mommy role.

She took a moment to compliment me "You look chipper today!" and I took a moment to hear her and receive her words.

In doing so, we were both nurturing one another.

Nurturers make the world a better place.

Who have you nurtured today?

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To contact Julie to schedule a Writing or Creative Life Coaching Session, call or text her at 661.444.2735.

Check out the links below to follow her on a bunch of different social media channels, especially if you find the idea of a Word-Love Party bus particularly enticing.

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April 19, 2015

Living the Question of Passionate Devotion & Commitment While Being Where I Find Myself

I participate in the AllThingsFadra Stream of Consciousness Sunday, a five minute exploration of dumping whatever is flowing about one's brain and putting it out there for the whole world to see. I might not show you how I look under my clothing, but I will show you how I look under my scalp. Today, my brain is rumbling... precisely here.

Here I sit.

I have had multiple a-ha moments this morning and feel the need - the compulsion to get them down so if a five minute free flow writing is what will do the trick, good lordy I’ll take it.

The little scampering mice side of my brain says, “You won’t remember anyway so I don’t know why you delude yourself, sucker!” Oh, nice. That’s so nice.

Anyway - I realized I haven’t fully, one thousand percent committed myself to something long-term for a long, long, I’ve lost track of how long of a time. I have committed myself to short term sprints of devotion, but not long term, “I’m in it to win it!” sort of ways which might be one of the reasons I was especially dynamited by a friend’s recent scolding.

I have hunkered down and gotten things done, but I haven’t had the passionate joy that I have had in the past, probably because I believe at any moment some crisis (or crises) outside of my control will swoop in and take me off course so why bother in the first place?

I talked to Adam about this last Thursday.

We spoke of constellations constantly circling above my head - the facts and realities of what are in my life and worries that are, again, based on facts and true hard evidence that yes, they may spring up and drag me off and yes, that wouldn’t be pretty or sweet or complimentary when they happen especially if I am driving full force down the road of my own passionate devotion.

How interesting to note this, my non -- mice brain says.

So my Julie-center-self says, “Oh, how I miss that passionate commitment and devotion to a something inside and outside of myself!”

My timer has twenty one seconds to go. There is no way I can have any sort of interesting discourse in twenty one seconds.

Which is such an apt metaphor for this entire situation I have been living in for the last few years.

I’m going slightly over five minutes to say, this is what my friend Rilke wants me to know. I need to learn to love the questions I am living, not any of those other questions I used to live or may live someday. So, how do I create passionate commitment while these constellations are circling above my head?

What can I do to replicate that joyful blissed out feeling in the short chunks of time I have?

Who do I need to be that I can forgive myself when the wills of the wind push me off course and when other people get triggered by that, how do I stay open yet not slayed by where their triggers take them (while not allowing my own buttons to be pushed)?

Six minutes it was.

Thank you for listening.

JJS

This was my 5 minute Stream of Consciousness Sunday post. It’s five minutes of your time and a brain dump. Want to try it? Here are the rules…

Set a timer and write for 5 minutes.
Write an intro to the post if you want but don’t edit the post. This is writing in the raw.
Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
Link back to this post (feel free to use the SOC Sunday graphic).
Add your post below (be sure to use the permalink to your post, not your blog’s URL; and only NEW posts please).
Visit your fellow bloggers and show some love.

Now…

Write your post and add your link at AllThingsFadra!

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To contact Julie to schedule a Writing or Creative Life Coaching Session, call or text her at 661.444.2735.

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April 17, 2015

Inspiring Creative Thought through this Eastern Sierra Roadtrip

Participate in Photo Friday Link Up at Pierced Wonderings

I have been busy adventuring lately and have quite a backlog of photos to make into blog posts.

Today, enjoy this journey into a different version of California - we aren’t all palm trees and beaches. This is a tiny scratch on the surface - and will hopefully inspire you to consider a different path the next time you visit the Golden State.

Many don't realize the history of "relocation camps" during World War 2 here in the US. In the Eastern Sierras, Japanese residents of the United States (including citizens) were involuntarily moved to places such as Manzanar.

They are recreating some of the buildings at Manzanar - inside the visitor center one may see how densely packed the buildings were. Quite striking against the Eastern Sierra Mountains.

Further North, outside Bishop, are the Chalk bluffs and Volcanic Areas. Happy and Sad boulder trails and this "dinosaur" boulder.

We couldn't get the Lake Sabrina due to snow, but the views were breathtaking.

This was the Smokey Bear Spring Break. Emma posed here with her "new boyfriend" - The signs are actually lots of fun - a lot of variety & different periods in Smokey Bear's life tell slightly different versions of the story. One truth? In our ongoing California Drought the fire danger is HIGH HIGH HIGH!

Even (or especially) while traveling, writing practice is important. Keeps me centered and focused + helps me to remember.

On the road to Lake Sabrina, there were other fun finds. These places may seem vaguely familiar - lots of Western Television and films were shot in the Eastern Sierras - even a recent Lifetime (or maybe Hallmark?) Christmas movie was shot here...

One unexpected delight - the home of Mary Austin, a writer, a feminist, a naturalist, a one-time-resident of Bakersfield, no less, Mary Hunter Austin. Thanks to my love for historical markers (thank you, Dad!) I made a new "friend".

My morning pages have been peppered with Mary Austin references since I returned to Bakersfield. She is a kindred, indeed!

I want to go back to the Eastern Sierras sometime very soon - very soon.

So much to see, connect with and learn from as well.

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This blog post is a part of April's Blogging from A to Z Challenge. Visit here daily in April to be inspired by literary grannies across time.

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To contact Julie to schedule a Writing or Creative Life Coaching Session, call or text her at 661.444.2735.

Check out the links below to follow her on a bunch of different social media channels, especially if you find the idea of a Word-Love Party bus particularly enticing.

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April 16, 2015

M is for Mary Hunter Austin - Inspired by Literary Grannies "We are born by bits...."

“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”

Mary Austin

I recently fell in love with Mary Hunter Austin.

I didn’t know who she was until ten days ago when I was driving through Independence, California en route to Bishop, California and saw a historical marker directing me to “Mary Austin home”.

I didn’t know who Mary Austin was at all and I had vowed not to follow my usual leanings toward forever following historical markers. By the time we turned back toward home I decided I simply must follow it. She was a woman, after all.

So off I went and found a simple home with a marker that had a poem on it.

Ten days later I’ve dug deeper and found she spent some of her youngest adult years right here in Kern County, close enough to me that I can find her home site. Well, it isn’t as if there are flashing lights to point me the way, but I look forward to finding out more and sharing that more with you along the way.

So what is it may bring you to delight about Mary?

Well, she connects. She connects to me. She connects to me and others who love nature and adore the sweet, sweet bliss of word-love and adventure of growing as a member of our creative and human community.

We’re going to play with her initial quote to inspire some writing and thought so you two may get acquainted.

Questions for Reflection and Writing:

What thought have you given to your spiritual growth and development?

Where would you like to focus more upon for your future growth?

What is in your past that may be fruitful for your future? You might want to start with a list or a mindmap to develop as a human being.

Sentence starters:

I would describe my current birth process as…

I am being born right now to…

I have been stuck in birth…

Contemplation at the end of the day:

Today I felt labor pains when trying to birth…

I also noticed….

I would feel fewer pain pangs if I…

I might feel fewer pain pangs if I….

I wish I could…

Tomorrow I would like to…

This week it would be best for me to…

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This blog post is a part of April's Blogging from A to Z Challenge. Visit here daily in April to be inspired by literary grannies across time.

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To contact Julie to schedule a Writing or Creative Life Coaching Session, call or text her at 661.444.2735.

Check out the links below to follow her on a bunch of different social media channels, especially if you find the idea of a Word-Love Party bus particularly enticing.

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How Engaging with Words - and Writing Practice - Will Wake You Up (an Inspiring Video & More!)

Bliss in my front yard. Inhaling lavendar. Immediate response to the delight. Holding that delight in my heart. Didn't have to go to a fancy retreat or take a course, I just opened my front door and turned left into heaven. I'll take it!

In order to get to the joy of writing practice, sometimes one has to step outside a moment, to what one wants out of life overall. Stay with me for a moment to show you what I mean.

I love putting my face in the center of a bouquet and breathing in, deeply. I close my eyes and feel deep pleasure of the flowers themselves as well as the deep pleasure of my heart’s response.

I don’t even think about the whole of that until I exhale and stand up from the flowers and feel my heart rejoice within my chest.

I didn’t know this until I had been writing almost daily for several months.

I can hear some people being turned off by “writing practice” and think, “Oh, no. I am not going to be tied down by another should or another ‘thing’ something else believes is important to do.

Instead, look here, just for a moment, at the value of awareness in your life.

Would you rather be more awake and aware or would you rather be more asleep or numb?

Some of you may rather be taking a nap than being creative or feeling fascinated or passionate. If this is you - hooray. Discerning what you would rather have, what you would rather feel, is significant.

Maybe you would rather be fully alive and fascinated, passionate and aware.

This is what writing practice creates. Just by meeting the page daily (or nearly daily) will have a significant impact on your life. I have heard people say “I am not ready for that amount of change,” and that is just right, too.

Here’s what I suggest. Watch the video I created “on the fly” yesterday and see what it calls to you to do next. Take a nap? Right on. Start moving your pencil? Write on!

Don't hesitate on your corner of fabulous and "did you really just do that?" go ahead, start writing. Pencil or pen on paper. You don't have to worry. Your anger will be temporarily gone or perhaps forever gone.

The practice of just writing words just for the sake of words is really, really important.

Let me know how it goes.

Smell some flowers. Feel alive.

Be weird and allow the truths to pop out.

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April 30, 2015

Inspired by Literary Grannies: Z is for Zoe Akins

April 29, 2015

Yet Another Way to Put More Fun into Your Writing!

April 26, 2015

U is for Ursula Leguin - Inspired by Literary Grannies

April 23, 2015

Video - How to Create an Insta-Writing Prompt for a Never Ending Flow of Writing Ideas

April 21, 2015

P is for Phillis Wheatley: Inspired by Literary Grannies - "The muses assist my pen"

The Power of Nurture: It is for All of Us

April 19, 2015

Living the Question of Passionate Devotion & Commitment While Being Where I Find Myself

April 17, 2015

Inspiring Creative Thought through this Eastern Sierra Roadtrip

April 16, 2015

M is for Mary Hunter Austin - Inspired by Literary Grannies "We are born by bits...."

How Engaging with Words - and Writing Practice - Will Wake You Up (an Inspiring Video & More!)