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May 5-6, 2012
Follow the Pen: A Two-Day Journey to Fearless Writing
Montreat, North Carolina



July 21-22, 2012
Women, Writing and Soul-Making
North Carolina Arboretum
Asheville, North Carolina

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August 3-5, 2012
Zen Mind, Writer's Mind
Alexander, North Carolina

 Sept 30 - Oct 7, 2012  

The 10th Annual
Fearless Writing on the Blue Ridge Retreat
Canton, NC (Lake Logan)



November 10 & 11, 2012
Follow the Pen: A Two-Day Journey to Fearless Writing
Montreat, North Carolina

 
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Practice Makes Possible

Practice. Practice. Practice.

Process before product.

Writing requires silence, solitude, space, and the courage and awareness to search our shadow side.

Write from the belly, not the brain; write from the heart, not the head.

The body with its intuition and our willingness to listen to what the body says are our greatest assets as writers.

Writing and publishing are not the same thing. If we write, we are writers. If we publish what we write, we are published writers. A published writer is not a better writer. A published writer is simply a writer who is published.


-Peggy Tabor Millin
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Women, Writing, and Soul-Making

Wordly Wise from Peggy Tabor Millin

Mary's Way Rebirthed

Twenty years ago Celestial Arts published my book, Mary's Way: A Universal Story of Spiritual Growth Inspired by the Messages of Medjugorje. Although the events in my life that led to its writing, publication, and reprinting were amazingly synchronistic, its sales were less than impressive. The Bosnian war impacted the number of pilgrimages and affected interest in the appearance of the Virgin Mary at this particular site.

In the nineties, before the Internet and e-mail marketing, the book found its own readership by -- I was told -- falling off shelves into the right readers' hands. When Mary's Way was remaindered*, I felt that at some point it would be reborn and reborn with a new cover that illustrated the universality of Mary's message instead of her iconic image from the religious perceptive.

Last year, I began feeling the nudge that the time was right. Many of us experience time speeding up, change occurring so rapidly we can scarcely blink. The Internet and other technologies increase our awareness of change - we can now watch the glaciers melting and rain forests shrinking in real time. We have proven that we can literally shop until the global community drops. We now know we cannot quickly return to that way of life and increasingly sense that we are moving toward a disruption that will force a major shift in direction. Individually, we can choose to be inwardly prepared for outer changes. For this reason I chose a more apt subtitle for Mary's Way: Cultivating a Peaceful Heart in Trying Times. Otherwise, the content is the same except for an additional introduction and updated information on the visionaries.

We all need light on our life path, something basic and good to guide us no matter how dark things might look. The "way" of Mary's Way shines light on the stepping stones of a way to live while we go about our daily lives. The message is not a new one, but it is one for our time. Mary herself, an aspect of the Great Mother, grounds us in the simple practices of prayer and love within the context of the tradition of our choice. More than once in the messages at Medjugorje, Mary has said that man, not God, created the differences among religions: to God all religions are equal.

Mary's Way: Cultivating a Peaceful Heart in Trying Times will officially be launched in May. Simultaneously I will launch a blog called "Writing Out of Bounds."
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