CELEBRATE WITH ME

My new book, How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice, has just been accepted by Oxford University Press. I could not be more grateful. I believe this is the best writing I have ever done, six years of slowly weaving together the fabric of my writing life and my spiritual life, asking difficult questions of both, and trying to find and understand what it means to be a writer who takes seriously the mystery at the heart of creation.

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I have had such companion pilgrims in this journey, writers gathering here in our home every Wednesday and Thursday evening for the last thirty-two years, and writers across the United States and in Ireland, Canada and Japan who have written with me, listened to my writing, and taught me.

My long-time companions in writing have been my teachers as well as my workshop participants, and they have celebrated with me this week. They were with me in the writing. Out of the twenty-four participants, all heard me read portions of the manuscript, and a dozen or more read the entire manuscript and offered suggestions for change.

And so this writing is first to celebrate my thirty-two year community of writers here in our home, and secondly to celebrate my new book, and the time I am giving to myself to bring it to its final form for publication by Oxford University Press. I hope you will celebrate with me, and that we may write together sometime in one of the workshops or retreats that I will be leading now and then: one-day, weekend, or five-day in Amherst, across the US and in other countries. You will find those listed on my calendar of events on this website.