Beginning Again...
Spent the morning as part of a writing workshop at the Servant Leadership School of Greensboro. Ten of us were part of this "One City, One Prompt 2014" experience which is taking place in communities all over the country. This year's theme is BEGIN AGAIN, creatively addressing the questions of how do I begin again- personally, professionally, relationally? How can my community begin again? How does beginning again relate to humanity's needs and to the needs of our planet? and How shall we begin again to connect across faith, race, ethnicity, and class? Our gifted leader, a young woman by the name of Jacinta White, led us into several creative writing exercises, using a variety of "prompts" and it was a great joy to feel my creative juices flowing again...to be in the company of others who, like me, take pleasure in the creative expression of our thoughts and feelings through the venue of words, painting word-pictures as surely as my artist-f...