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The Book of Delights Book Club: Listening by the Lake

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

The Book of Delights guitar

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The Book of Delights Book Club: Simply Called Sharing What We Love

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Venice brick building

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The Book of Delights Book Club: High Five from Strangers

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

The Book of Delights - monkeys playing

In this week’s book club discussion of Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights, we are finding delight in a sleeping gecko, an umbrella, a green bottle, high fives, and more.

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The 7 Principles for Making Friendship Work—Part I, Myth Discoveries

By L.L. Barkat 6 Comments

Friendship Flowers

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Book Club Announcement: The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

By Will Willingham 10 Comments

Delightful sheep with bucket

Beginning July 15, join us for our new book club featuring some of the delightful essays in Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights.

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The Wisdom of Butterflies

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

wisdom of butterflies

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To Bless the Space Between Us Book Club: Callings & Beyond Endings

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Sunset behind shed

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Poems to Listen By: Under the Canopy 09—Eternity [Bonus Episode]

By Laurie Klein 8 Comments

Under the Canopy Eternity

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To Bless the Space Between Us Book Club: Thresholds, Homecomings & States of Heart

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

To Bless the Space Between Us Book Club; photo of trees in desert

In this week’s To Bless the Space Between Us, we consider John O’Donohue’s blessings for thresholds, homecomings and states of heart.

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To Bless the Space Between Us Book Club: Beginnings & Desires

By Will Willingham 14 Comments

To bless the space between us beginnings

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Wild Words Book Club: Ending to Begin

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

winter trees and ice

A season of finishing can also be a time for a beginning. And seasons of retreat can be opportunities for turning outward. Callie Feyen concludes her book club discussion of Nicole Gulotta’s Wild Words this week.

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Wild Words Book Club: Finding And Using Your Wings

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

Wagtail in rain - wild words book club

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Wild Words Book Club: Return to Yourself

By Callie Feyen 7 Comments

Wild Words book club pink finger flower

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Wild Words Book Club: Make Believe

By Callie Feyen 1 Comment

Imagination Polka Dot Bag

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Wild Words Book Club: 5 Ways To Begin

By Callie Feyen 15 Comments

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In this first installment of the Wild Words book club, Callie Feyen reflects on five ways her writing has started, and the ways beginning and doubting intersect.

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Poems to Listen By: Sharing the Canopy 08—Poetics

By Laurie Klein 9 Comments

trees in swamp

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Book Club Announcement: Wild Words by Nicole Gulotta

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Waves crash on rocks

Author Nicole Gulotta introduces our next book club, Wild Words, a book that serves as a gentle guide to navigating the writing life through its seasons.

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‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ Book Club: Divinest Sense

By Megan Willome 3 Comments

Sara Barkat

Join author Megan Willome as we read a graphic novel of ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ using Emily Dickinson’s poem ‘Much Madness is divinest Sense–’ as our guide.

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‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ Book Club: Tell It Slant

By Megan Willome Leave a Comment

Sara Barkat

Join author Megan Willome as we read a graphic novel of ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ using Emily Dickinson’s poem ‘Tell all the truth but tell it slant–’ as our guide.

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‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ Book Club: The Thing With Feathers

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

graphic novel Sara Barkat

Join author Megan Willome as we read a graphic novel of “The Yellow Wall-Paper” using Emily Dickinson’s poem “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers–” as our guide.

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