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blogs, journals, and processing
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Britton Gildersleeve
As part of a lawsuit I’m involved with, I was asked to see if I had taken any notes concerning the event under question. Because I keep a journal, which travels with me almost everywhere. In the 30+ years I’ve kept it regularly (and the many more erratic years before that), I’ve only lost 2.…
my own Amtrak writing retreat
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Britton Gildersleeve
Everyone who knows me even slightly knows I adore trains. They’re my favourite way to travel. Because a) you don’t get airsick (or carsick). And b) you can just sit…and write. It’s this tiny world where all that exists are you, the window on America (or France, or Holland, or Belgium, or Thailand, or wherever…), a dining…
lists, writing, and cleaning the mind’s house
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Britton Gildersleeve
Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve visualised my mind as an old house. And lately it seems more like a house that needs a LOT of TLC — re: it’s kind of a mess. So when the facilitator at the writing retreat I’m at today asked us to ‘make a list’ to…
a Sunday meditation: happiness=poetry
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Britton Gildersleeve
Young poets often believe that it takes unhappiness to create ‘art.’ You must drink too much, do drugs, have a sadly aching life. Be as miserable & crazy as Poe, as suicidal as Hemingway, as dysfunctional as Sexton. Sometimes, they even hear this from their seniors. It’s NOT true. Happiness fosters not only art, but…
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