If I had to offer to host a Virtual Writing Camp session where we create together on a topic that will most likely thrill, delight and engage me for the rest of my life, I would tell you I would want to do my campfire play within a very specific place:
Introducing Rumi’s Field
This very short poem describes this place where next week’s Writing Camp Intensive will be held. We will meet around a Virtual Campfire for five one hour long teleclasses (or recorded) during the week from 8:30 am Pacific time to 9:30 am Pacific time.
Yes, one "campfire" a day from Monday through Friday.
We will explore Paradox – that space where two extreme opposites are both true and the space, I believe, where all creativity begins.
If you are ready - if you feel that butterfly fluttering about your belly as you read this Writing Camp topic, consider and register now for this mind-evolving session running for an hour daily, an intensive week long experience only March 12- March 16, 2012.
There are no repeats: this is the only time this Camp Session is available. Don't miss it!
Paradox has always been a powerful place for me to hang out, to breathe, to connect to wholeness.
Paradox tells me “It is perfectly ok to not know, to be uncomfortable, to be a beginner.”
Paradox welcomes me when I feel wholly unwelcomed by the status quo.
It is like the other sister, Ambiguity – I relate that to the “turbid smokiness” of Paradox.
You might discover yourself in part of this writing, created via our brand of prompting and writing at Camp. It was written in response to a poem by Rumi:
I could walk in the direction of the vague, all encompassing, “I am the beauty that lives in everyone and everything and every ya ya blahbity blahbity boring kumbaya bullshit thing” but what is more true is what our beloved poets attempt to remind us.
Welcome, welcome, hear me – welcome the not-so-welcome. You just think the not so welcome is ugly. It isn’t.
What is ugly is your entrenched opinion, a slicker over the “your beauty that lives” and the “this is my beauty that lives”. The cracked, parched, the aging – now THERE is the beauty. I look at my deepening crows feet, caused by years of smiling my big goofy grin, splashing it across my face. I won’t Botox or medically scrape that beauty away. No. Not the echoes (my favorite overused word today) of hot, jagged crying spells. My unbeautiful-to-society crows feet say, “I feel, without holding back or holding on.”
Society says grieving well is in stiff upper lips and strangling knots of unsprung tears in our throats. I say grieving well is beautiful tears, furrowed foreheads, frowns, wails which rise from our gut and pulse through our mouths and come out a symphonic prayer which empties us, allowing even more beauty in. It is beauty which would never have come if we didn’t allow our throats to open, if we didn’t offer our veins for slicing or our skin for the mosquito to bite, to become inflamed and itchy.
If you would like to read a complete description of the Writing Camp format and who may be best served there, please visit here to learn more. You may register there as well.
You may also be wondering who I am - besides just a name "Julie Jordan Scott, Founder and Head Counselor at Writing Camp with JJS... and a bunch of other labels given to me such as Mommy, Actor, Writer, Poet Performer, Director, Artist. I would prefer to share via the "Who I Am" which I wrote during a Writing Camp exercise:
I am a princess in a fairy tale whose life began with “once upon a time: and is now, after much travail, living contentedly ever after without being swept off her feet by anyone or head-over-heels rich or even living in a palace. (You see, those aren’t what makes contentedly, happily or even blissfully ever after!)
I am a paradox, an angry empowered young crone, ready to quietly take on the world in a peaceful battle for love, social justice and collaborative understanding.
I am a voluptuary, witnessing life in the moment so that I may tell the story in hopes the right someone will listen and take note and if all is especially favorable, change will occur as a result.
I am Julie Jordan Scott, Mommy-Extraordinaire, Artist-of-Life, Lover-of-humanity, Creative Soul who loves opening doors, standing on soapboxes, singing with all I am and getting up again after I have fallen over and over and over again.
I am….also hopeful you will join us for this very unique session of Writing Camp with JJS. If you require more details and a more traditional web-introduction to this program, you may visit here to get more information.
If you have seen enough via this unconventional "Welcome to Writing Camp" invitation... you may register now here...
Please join us for Writing Intensive Camp, a week-long session of Writing in Community.
March Writing Camp: Living, Loving and Writing the Paradox
March 12 - 16 Register Now -
5 powerful days to change your writing experiences forever
for only $49.Virtually unheard of low pricing.
If you are ready - if you feel that butterfly fluttering about your belly as you read this Writing Camp topic, consider and register now for this mind-evolving session running for an hour daily, an intensive week long experience only March 12- March 16, 2012.
There are no repeats: this is the only time this Camp Session is available.
Don't miss it!