I recently took a writing workshop from prize-winning poet, journalist, author and teacher Deborah Edler Brown.
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She calls it “Digging the Well”. Ms. Brown creates an environment that allows you to mine experience and imagination that you may not have known was available to you. I found myself writing from the heart in ways I’ve never felt able to access before. This experience shows me that there are possibilities to explore, not only in writing my non-fiction projects and my songwriting, but in other areas of life that I choose to pursue that I had once thought beyond my reach. I have seen a very personal, specific example of how many of our imagined limitations are self-imposed. I will always be grateful to Ms. Brown for that insight. May your 2010 be a year full of exploration and discovery.