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What Practice Makes

April 25, 2019 By Nancy Casey

If you do a daily mind-clearing activity, you have a practice. It could be a yoga practice, or meditation. A singing practice, a dance practice, a walking, drawing, or jump-rope practice. A daily practice. At my house, as the promise of spring shifts to the promise of summer, I make the shift into Lawn Chair Practice. The basic requirement of Lawn Chair Practice is is to … [Read more...] about What Practice Makes

Circles In the Sky

December 19, 2017 By Nancy Casey

The work that you will do in your writing practice today is in two parts.  In the first part you will do something.  In the second part you will write about what it was like to do it.  The thing that you will do is an exercise that relaxes your neck and supposedly improves your concentration. You have probably seen setups where bright spotlights shine up into the sky, making … [Read more...] about Circles In the Sky

Standing Up in Silence

December 15, 2017 By Nancy Casey

Before you begin to write, move around a little bit in your chair and practice standing up without making the slightest grunting sound.  See if you can feel like you are floating effortlessly upward. How can you do this? While you are still seated, alert your body to what’s coming.  Get your feet underneath you.  Shift your weight so your spine flexes a little bit.  Scoot … [Read more...] about Standing Up in Silence

Circles in the Sky

December 4, 2017 By Nancy Casey

Do this exercise and then write about what it was like. Pick a number between 8 and 20. Sit comfortably with your back supported.  Close your eyes and pretend that there is a search light shining into the sky from the top of your head.  Move your head in slow circles, pretending that you are drawing circles in the sky with the light saber you are wearing on your … [Read more...] about Circles in the Sky

Such a Useful Body

November 14, 2017 By Nancy Casey

One thing that is certain about having a life in the world is that from start to finish, you do it in a body.  Your body. It was issued to you at the start, and it’s yours throughout.  So many heartbeats.  So many breaths.  So many steps taken and meals digested. Your body grows, changes and ages.  When it gets ill or injured, you call yourself “sick” or “hurt.” When it … [Read more...] about Such a Useful Body

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Nancy blogs weekly for the Latah Recovery Community Center, sharing writing ideas that support self-awareness and self-esteem.


 

Writing classes and workshops

I had been looking forward to the 2020 summer season of in-person  Write-For-You workshops at the Latah Recovery Community Center.  Alas.

 

Congratulations to last summer’s students who earned certificates in Fiction Writing, Project Management and Grant Writing.

 

Applause and thanks to those who dropped by the classes just for fun.

 

If you are in recovery and interesting in writing coaching, contact Nancy.


 

Let’s Talk About It

A program that supports reading and discussion in libraries throughout the state of Idaho. Free and open to all. Somehow? Again? At a later date?

 

We are all looking forward to the time when it will be possible to resume these lively book discussions.

 

I’ve served as a scholar for this program for I-don’t-know-how-many years. I have found every book, every library, every group of people to be interesting and stimulating. Every discussion brings new ideas and surprises.

 

I’m confident that this program will evolve so that it can continue to bring Idahoans together through books. We just don’t know how or when that will happen.  Yet.

 

 


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