💚 A more human dwelling place

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Announcements:
—NEW: Monthly SDW Revision Stations Designed by Lauren Winner.
—We have SDW Co-Writing today from 3-7 p.m. CT.
—New: I added another author to the Thoughtful Readers Gatherings lineup.

Pause.

Do a few rounds of Box Breathing: Inhale for a count of four, hold for a count or four, exhale for a count of four, hold for a count of four.

Prompt.

“Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it from even the most tragic of circumstances. Art reminds reminds us that we belong here. And if we serve, we last.” - Toni Morrison

Practice.

Take notes on how art helps you belong. What art has helped you belong over the past few weeks? All of it counts, not just the fancy art. All forms and genres of high art, low art, and all of the in between art.

Also: What happens when you go too long without artful encounters with music, film, TV, paintings?

Want More?
”The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.” - James Baldwin

Charlotte Donlon

Writer, Spiritual Director, & Founder of Spiritual Direction for Writers

spiritualdirectionforwriters.com

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