June12th -- Join other busy people who long to slow down, take stock of their lives and explore ways to embrace a fulfilling life. We'll stretch and relax our bodies through yoga poses, center our minds with meditation and explore how to nurture the lives we want in our writing circle. 
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The purpose of the WWf(a)CF scholarship program is to reduce financial barriers that prevent women and girls from participating in the WWf(a)C community of writers, particularly as these barriers relate to race, culture, class and age.

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Take your Brain out to play...by capturing your own thoughts, ideas and feelings in writing.
 
Exercise your Voice... by sharing your adventures and words with others.

Open your Ears... to hear about the experiences of others your age.

Expand your Heart... through art and making new friends.

Special features this summer:

** Visiting Artist working with watercolor & collage

** Read-around Fridays for invited guests

** Play-me-I'm-Yours Piano - be part of a city wide celebration of music and public radio
 

** Fun -  Friendships - Creativity

Sign up NOW and take advantage of NEW LOWER PRICES:

Click here for dates & times, and to register online.

Need a SCHOLARSHIP?  Click here to apply.  Applications due by June 7th.

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You Reading This, Be Ready

Starting here, what do you want to remember?
How sunlight creeps along a shining floor?
What scent of old wood hovers, what softened
sound from outside fills the air?

Will you ever bring a better gift for the world
than the breathing respect that you carry
wherever you go right now? Are you waiting
for time to show you some better thoughts?

When you turn around, starting here, lift this
new glimpse that you found; carry into evening
all that you want from this day. This interval you spent
reading or hearing this, keep it for life -

What can anyone give you greater than now,
starting here, right in this room, when you turn around?


~ William Stafford ~
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How is your writing going this summer? 

Every new season, every new day is a clean slate.  Consider this from Stafford's poem:

What can anyone give you greater than now,
starting here, right in this room, when you turn around?

Schedule a weekly writing date for the summer and keep your appointments! 

Kick it off with this poem.  Do a ten minute fastwrite to the idea of this poem or to any line that is calling you.