"Creative Life Writing" with Andrea Beard

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Two-minute meditation
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Relax.

Focus on your breath.

Quiet your mind.

What pulls you in or
pushes you away?
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The rhythm?
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The subject?
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The deft blending 
of form/thought?
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The energy 
of listening to it
"LIVE" ?


This is one of my favorite scenes
from the movie 
CONTACT.
In the beginning of this clip, 
Jodie Foster says, 
"They should've sent a poet..."
More to follow in the days ahead...
Enjoy.

Just as a writer

 responds to a prompt . . .

Fred Astaire

takes an everyday object

— pairs it with talent —

and creates ART.

The Gift of Story:
The Art of Living
Every Minute of Your Life

A lecture by
Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen

Author of 
Kitchen Table Wisdom
and
My Grandfather's Blessings

Elizabeth Gilbert

Author of Eat, Pray, Love

Some websites
that feed the soul
and open the doors of
 possibility and perception.



SOUNDS TRUE
http://www.soundstrue.com/radio/
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ON BEING with Krista Tippitt
www.onbeing.org
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TED Talks
http://www.ted.com

Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.

experienced a stroke in 1996.
It took her eight years to recover.
This experience profoundly changed her life.
In 2008, TIME magazine chose her 
as one of the 100 most influential 
people in the world.

Her personal illuminations are detailed
in her memoir: My Stroke of Insight:
A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey