Daily Nourishment (and Announcements!) for October 1-October 31, 2025
Please visit the links below for this month’s SDW Daily Nourishment offerings using previous Spiritual Direction for Writers® posts or emails. Enjoy!
Please Note: The links are from the past, so any announcements inside the links are most likely no longer relevant.
And there might be some repeated Pauses, Prompts, and Practices here and there. Repeats are not a problem because every time you return to a familiar SDW Pause, Prompt, and Practice you bring a different version of yourself that’s been formed by all the things you’ve experienced, thought, discovered, gained, and lost since the last time you encountered the them.
Because all of life is the writing life and we are always being formed to make the art we will make when it’s time to make the art we will make.
Here are a few announcements that are definitely relevant for the coming days and weeks:
>>> Here’s a list of current SDW offerings
>>> We have recently added some NEW standalone Narrative Writing workshops with Tanya Davis to the calendar. Learn more and register here.
>>> NEW(ish) PODCAST: All of This & More with Charlotte Donlon
October 1: Dawn Comes Later Now
October 2: Voyage of Discovery
October 3: Be Sure to Read Poetry with Guidance from Lydia Davis on National Poetry Day
October 4: Honoring Our Pets Who Bring Us Joy
October 5: It Seems Like They're Almost Rhyming with Guidance from NASA Satellite Images
October 6: To Change Perceptions with Guidance from Mary McCampbell
October 7: As If You Were There with Guidance from Mary McCampbell
October 8: Mining Your Memories with Guidance from Mary McCampbell
October 9: The Act of Lament with Guidance from Mary McCampbell
October 10: Music and Memory with Guidance from Mary McCampbell
October 11: Something Weirder, More Interesting
October 12: Part of It Remains Mysterious
October 13: Words That May, or May Not, Remain in the World
October 14: Our Dreams Drink Coffee with Us
October 15: When We Write around the Corners of Life
October 16: Sweet Thing, There She Was
October 17: More World Everywhere with Guidance from Anne Sexton
October 18: The Important and the Unimportant
October 19: Be Mostly Self Taught
October 20: Come in Cold with Guidance from David Baker
October 21: Gathering Momentum with Guidance from Maggie Smith
October 22: Feel Alive to Yourself and Your Art
October 23: Read Your Life (Again)
October 24: Receive What It Has to Offer
October 25: Breath’s Cool Descent with Guidance from Colette Eaton
October 26: Calm the Stormy Seas with Guidance from Colette Eaton
October 27: How Do You Want to Inhabit Election Season and Beyond?
October 28: Let Go as Trees Let Go Their Leaves with Guidance from Lauren Winner
October 29: Words for Autumn with Guidance from Lauren Winner
October 30: Invitations to Observe and Write from Eliza Brightwen with Guidance from Lauren Winner
October 31: Ghost Encounters with Guidance from Lauren Winner
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