I think we all know that any REAL risk will push our comfort zones, but I’ve realized in the past few weeks that some zones are more uncomfortable than others.
Consider my January daily audacious goal to write or edit a poem five days a week. I was excited about it, many of you were kind enough [...]
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The Grace of Gradual Change
The Power of Admitting Where You’re From
I am not yet ready to call myself a teacher of poetry, but in the past year I have been a poetry workshop leader on a few occasions. One evening last month I arrived at Watkins College, a Nashville fine arts and design school, prepared to be the substitute teacher for my friend Gloria Ballard’s writing [...]
The Power of Admitting Your Dreams
Less than six weeks ago, a good friend and I had a conversation about one of her deepest aspirations. She’s been on the staff at her church for many years, but she confessed to me for the first time that she’s listening for a call from God to be an ordained minister.
I understood this was [...]