Recently my friend Lindsay Wolff inquired if I was doing a writing class this fall. Giving it some thought, I decided to offer the following just because I thought it could be (1) a fun refresher and (2) a way to acknowledge some of my many teachers. Each week we will address a theme, practice or prompt such as the following—
- “Appreciation is the sacrament.” —Allen Ginsberg
- Commonplace Books: Like Thoreau and Emerson of Old
- “Don’t Be Swayed by External Circumstances”—Buddhist lojong
- Equality Practice: “Just like me, you want to be happy, you don’t want to suffer.”
- First Thoughts—Natalie Goldberg
- The Good News—Nhat Hanh
- Gratitudes—Mev Puleo
- “I gave an onion.”—Grushenka, The Brothers Karamazov
- “I Remember”—Joe Brainard
- Logophilia—Keeping a glossary
- Naikan—The Inexhaustible 3 Questions of the Japanese
- “Scribbled secret notebooks and wild typewritten pages for your own joy”—Jack Kerouac
- Tags: Past, Present and Future
- Texts, Emails, Postcards, Letters
- Using Incense—Diane di Prima
We meet on Wednesdays, starting October 23 at Gelateria on South Grand from 6:30-7:45 p.m. We will go for ten sessions, avoiding seasonal holidays: 10.23, 10.30, 11.6, 11.13, 11.20, 12.4, 12.11, 12.18. 1.8, 1.15.
Tuition: $125, payable to me through Paypal or by check.
Email me if interested—markjchmiel@gmail.com
