have i given too little?
VerbTribe has been an extraordinary journey for me as a teacher, and for those who have joined it. As we close our first 37-day journey into writing, I am featuring writing from VerbTribe members here on 37days. Writer Billie Stingley offered us this beautiful piece of writing about giving. Have …
my purpose will be there tomorrow
VerbTribe has been an extraordinary journey for me as a teacher, and for those who have joined it. As we close our first 37-day journey into writing, I am going to feature writing from members of the VerbTribe here on 37days–pieces they have written during the time we have gathered …
leap is a verb.
Tomorrow at this time, I’ll be soldiering up to leap off a tall platform on a trapeze bar. I imagine I’ll look just like that <——–. What is your leap for Leap Day? What scares you? Leap into it. Go. Also, on Leap Day (2/29), the Early Bird …
poetry wednesday : please do stumble from your cave
From Out the Cave by Joyce Sutphen When you have been at war with yourself for so many years that you have forgotten why, when you have been driving for hours and only gradually begin to realize that you have lost the way, when you have cut hastily into the …
change your verbs, change your life.
I just want to share with the group that my life is changing because of this course. I don’t know what else to say. Everything is changing. My feelings about certain things are no longer so ambiguous. Life is richer. I am less afraid. -KiKi L’Italien We’ve just hit …
poetry wednesday : things competing to happen.
The Edges of Time It is at the edges that time thins. Time which had been dense and viscous as amber suspending intentions like bees unseizes them. A humming begins, apparently coming from stacks of put-off things or just in back. A …
give love. give hope. for donna.
Some of you will remember me carrying a small crayon apron across the country during my book tour for Creative is a Verb. I still carry that apron with me everywhere I go. Bright pink with little crayon-sized pockets in which a rainbow of color sits. Embroidered in white with …
my cape has tiny red pom-poms on the bottom.
I am afraid of heights. Deeply. They make me shake. A diving board is too high for me. And yet, I’ve long wanted to experience the letting go that comes with trapeze, particularly after reading Sam Keen’s writing on trapeze. And so, at 5pm on February 29th (Leap Day), I’ll …
poetry wednesday : love poem with toast
Love Poem With Toast -Miller Williams Some of what we do, we do to make things happen, the alarm to wake us up, the coffee to perc, the car to start. The rest of what we do, we do trying to keep …
