Encuentros virtuales en vivo: Sรกbado 26 de Febrero, 13:00 EST

El texto que escogimos para hoy fue โ€œNos han dado la tierraโ€ [Cuento texto completo] por Juan Rulfo. El poema se leyรณ dos veces y despuรฉs tuvimos un rico debate con diferentes interpretaciones del mensaje del poema.

La propuesta de escritura fue โ€œEscribe sobre una meta inalcanzableโ€.

Aquรญ, ahora alentamos a los participantes que si asรญ lo desean, compartan lo que escribieron a continuaciรณn. Deja tu respuesta aquรญ, si deseas continuar la conversaciรณn. Pero antes, les recomendamos tener en cuenta que el blog es un espacio pรบblico donde, por supuesto, no se garantiza la confidencialidad.

Por favor, รบnase a nosotros en nuestra prรณxima sesiรณn en espaรฑol: El sรกbado 2 de abril a las 13 hrs. o a la 1 pm EST (hora de Nueva York). Tambiรฉn, ofrecemos sesiones en inglรฉs. Ve aย  nuestra pรกgina de sesiones grupales virtuales en vivo.

ยกEsperamos verte pronto!



Nos han dado la tierra
[Cuento texto completo]
Juan Rulfo

Despuรฉs de tantas horas de caminar sin encontrar ni una sombra de รกrbol, ni una semilla de รกrbol, ni una raรญz de nada, se oye el ladrar de los perros.

Uno ha creรญdo a veces, en medio de este camino sin orillas, que nada habrรญa despuรฉs; que no se podrรญa encontrar nada al otro lado, al final de esta llanura rajada de grietas y de arroyos secos. Pero sรญ, hay algo. Hay un pueblo. Se oye que ladran los perros y se siente en el aire el olor del humo, y se saborea ese olor de la gente como si fuera una esperanza.

Pero el pueblo estรก todavรญa muy allรก. Es el viento el que lo acerca.

Hemos venido caminando desde el amanecer. Ahorita son algo asรญ como las cuatro de la tarde. Alguien se asoma al cielo, estira los ojos hacia donde estรก colgado el sol y dice:

-Son como las cuatro de la tarde.

Ese alguien es Melitรณn. Junto con รฉl, vamos Faustino, Esteban y yo. Somos cuatro. Yo los cuento: dos adelante, otros dos atrรกs. Miro mรกs atrรกs y no veo a nadie. Entonces me digo: โ€œSomos cuatroโ€. Hace rato, como a eso de las once, รฉramos veintitantos, pero puรฑito a puรฑito se han ido desperdigando hasta quedar nada mรกs que este nudo que somos nosotros.

Faustino dice:

-Puede que llueva.

Todos levantamos la cara y miramos una nube negra y pesada que pasa por encima de nuestras cabezas. Y pensamos: โ€œPuede que sรญโ€.


Live Virtual Group Session: 6PM EST February 21st 2022

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this session!

For this session we read an excerpt from The Once and Future King by T.H. White, posted below.ย 

Our prompt was: โ€œWrite a magic spell.โ€

More details will be posted on this session, so check back again!

Participants are warmly encouraged to share what you wrote below (โ€œLeave a Replyโ€), to keep the conversation going here, bearing in mind that the blog of course is a public space where confidentiality is not assured.

Also, we would love to learn more about your experience of these sessions, so if youโ€™re able, please take the time to fill out a follow-up survey of one to two quick questions!

Please join us for our next sessionย Monday February 28th atย 6pm EST, ย with more times listed on ourย Live Virtual Group Sessionsย page.


from The Once and Future King by T.H. White

โ€œThe best thing for being sad,โ€ replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, โ€œis to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewer of baser minds. There is only one thing for it thenโ€“to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you. Look at what a lot of things there are to learn โ€“ pure science, the only purity there is. You can learn astronomy in a lifetime, natural history in three, literature in six. And then, after you have exhausted a milliard lifetimes in biology and medicine and the criticism and geography and history and economics โ€“ why, you can start to make a cartwheel out of the appropriate wood, or spend fifty years learning to begin to learn to beat your adversary at fencing. After that you can start again on mathematics, until it is time to learn to plough.โ€ย 
โ€œApart from all these things,โ€ said the Wart, โ€œwhat do you suggest for me just now?โ€
โ€œLet me see,โ€ said the magician, considering. โ€œWe have had a short six years of this, and in that time I think I am right in saying that you have been many kinds of animal, vegetable, mineral, etc.โ€“many things in earth, air, fire, and waterโ€œI donโ€™t know much,โ€ said the Wart, โ€œabout the animals and earth.โ€
โ€œThen you had better meet my friend the badger.โ€
โ€œI have never met a badger.โ€
โ€œGood,โ€ said Merlin. โ€œExcept for Archimedes, he is the most learned creature I know. You will like him.โ€
โ€œBy the way,โ€ added the magician, stopping in the middle of his spell, โ€œthere is one thing I ought to tell you. This is the last time I shall be able to turn you into anything. All the magic for that sort of thing has been used up, and this is the end of your education. When Kay has been knighted my labours will be over. You will have to go away then, to be his squire in the wide world, and I shall go elsewhere. Do you think you have learned anything?โ€ย 
โ€œI have learned, and been happy.โ€
โ€œThatโ€™s right, then,โ€ said Merlin. โ€œTry to remember what you learned.โ€

(pp. 183-184) New York: The Berkeley Publishing Co. 1958 [originally published 1939]


Live Virtual Group Session: 12PM EST February 18th 2022

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this session!

For this session we read the poemย โ€œSpring and Fallโ€ by Gerard Manley Hopkins, posted below.ย 

Our prompt was: โ€œWrite about something you would say to your younger self.โ€

More details will be posted on this session, so check back again!

Participants are warmly encouraged to share what you wrote below (โ€œLeave a Replyโ€), to keep the conversation going here, bearing in mind that the blog of course is a public space where confidentiality is not assured.

Also, we would love to learn more about your experience of these sessions, so if youโ€™re able, please take the time to fill out a follow-up survey of one to two quick questions!

Please join us for our next sessionย Monday February 21st atย 6pm EST, ย with more times listed on ourย Live Virtual Group Sessionsย page.


โ€œSpring and Fallโ€ by Gerard Manley Hopkins

                     to a young child

Mรกrgarรฉt, รกre you grรญeving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leรกves like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! รกs the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you wรญll weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sรณrrowโ€™s sprรญngs รกre the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It รญs the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.


Source: Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics, 1985)

Live Virtual Group Session: 12PM EST February 16th 2022

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this session!

For this session we readย “The Three Sisters,” an excerpt from Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Hall Kimmerer, posted below.ย 

Our prompt was: โ€œWrite about telling a story by what you do.โ€

More details will be posted on this session, so check back again!

Participants are warmly encouraged to share what you wrote below (โ€œLeave a Replyโ€), to keep the conversation going here, bearing in mind that the blog of course is a public space where confidentiality is not assured.

Also, we would love to learn more about your experience of these sessions, so if youโ€™re able, please take the time to fill out a follow-up survey of one to two quick questions!

Please join us for our next sessionย Friday February 18th atย 12pm EST, ย with more times listed on ourย Live Virtual Group Sessionsย page.


“The Three Sisters,” an excerpt from Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Hall Kimmerer

It should be them that tell this story. Corn leaves rustle with a signature sound, a papery conversation with each other and the breeze. On a hot day in July โ€“ when the corn can grow six inches in a single day โ€“ there is a squeak of internodes expanding, stretching the stem towards the light. Leaves escape their sheaths with a drawn-out creak and sometimes, when all is still, you can hear the sudden pop of ruptured pith when water-filled cells become too large and turgid for the confines of the stem. These are sounds of being, but they are not the voice.

The beans must make a caressing sound, a tiny hiss as a soft-haired leader twines around the scabrous stem of corn. Surfaces vibrate delicately against each other, tendrils pulse as they cinch around a stem, something only a nearby flea beetle could hear. But this is not the song of beans.

Iโ€™ve lain among the ripening pumpkins and heard creaking as the parasol leaves rock back and forth, tethered by the tendrils, wind lifting their edges and easing them down again. A microphone in the hollow of a swelling pumpkin would reveal the pop of seeds expanding and the rush of water filling succulent orange flesh. These are sounds, but not the story. Plants tell their stories not by what they say, but by what they do.


Live Virtual Group Session: 6PM EST February 14th 2022

Thank you to everyone who joined us this Valentine’s Day for our evening session!

For this session we watched the performance ofย Seasons of Loveย from the film Rent, posted below.ย 

Our prompt was: โ€œHow do we measure a year?โ€

More details will be posted on this session, so check back again!

Participants are warmly encouraged to share what you wrote below (โ€œLeave a Replyโ€), to keep the conversation going here, bearing in mind that the blog of course is a public space where confidentiality is not assured.

Also, we would love to learn more about your experience of these sessions, so if youโ€™re able, please take the time to fill out a follow-up survey of one to two quick questions!

Please join us for our next session Wednesday February 16th at 12pm EST,  with more times listed on our Live Virtual Group Sessions page.



ฮ–ฯ‰ฮฝฯ„ฮฑฮฝฮฎ ฯƒฯ…ฮฝฮตฮดฯฮฏฮฑ ฮฑฯ†ฮทฮณฮทฮผฮฑฯ„ฮนฮบฮฎฯ‚ ฮนฮฑฯ„ฯฮนฮบฮฎฯ‚: ฮšฯ…ฯฮนฮฑฮบฮฎ 13 ฮฆฮตฮฒฯฮฟฯ…ฮฑฯฮฏฮฟฯ…, 7:30 ฮผ.ฮผ. ฮ•ฮ•ฮค

ฮฃฮฑฯ‚ ฮตฯ…ฯ‡ฮฑฯฮนฯƒฯ„ฮฟฯฮผฮต ฯ€ฮฟฯ… ฯƒฯ…ฮผฮผฮตฯ„ฮตฮฏฯ‡ฮฑฯ„ฮต ฯƒฮต ฮฑฯ…ฯ„ฮฎฮฝ ฯ„ฮท ฯƒฯ…ฮฝฮตฮดฯฮฏฮฑ.

ฮ ฮฟฮฏฮทฮผฮฑ: ฮ“ฮนฮฟฯ…ฯƒฮฟฯ…ฯฮฟฯฮผ (ฮœฮฑฯฮฏฮฑ ฮšฮญฮฝฯ„ฯฮฟฯ…-ฮ‘ฮณฮฑฮธฮฟฯ€ฮฟฯฮปฮฟฯ…)ย 

ฮ˜ฮญฮผฮฑ: “ฮ“ฯฮฌฯˆฯ„ฮต ฮณฮนฮฑ ฯ€ฯฮฌฮณฮผฮฑฯ„ฮฑ ฯ€ฮฟฯ… ฮฑฯ†ฮฎฯƒฮฑฯ„ฮต ฯ€ฮฏฯƒฯ‰”ย 

ฮฃฯฮฝฯ„ฮฟฮผฮฑ ฮธฮฑ ฮผฮฟฮนฯฮฑฯƒฯ„ฮฟฯฮผฮต ฯ€ฮตฯฮนฯƒฯƒฯŒฯ„ฮตฯฮตฯ‚ ฯ€ฮปฮทฯฮฟฯ†ฮฟฯฮฏฮตฯ‚ ฯƒฯ‡ฮตฯ„ฮนฮบฮฌ ฮผฮต ฮฑฯ…ฯ„ฮฎฮฝ ฯ„ฮท ฯƒฯ…ฮฝฮตฮดฯฮฏฮฑ, ฮณฮน โ€˜ฮฑฯ…ฯ„ฯŒ ฮตฯ€ฮนฯƒฯ„ฯฮญฯˆฯ„ฮต ฮพฮฑฮฝฮฌ.

ฮฃฮฑฯ‚ ฯ€ฯฮฟฯƒฮบฮฑฮปฮฟฯฮผฮต ฮฝฮฑ ฮผฮฟฮนฯฮฑฯƒฯ„ฮตฮฏฯ„ฮต ฯ„ฮฑ ฮณฯฮฑฯ€ฯ„ฮฌ ฯƒฮฑฯ‚ ฮผฮฑฮถฮฏ ฮผฮฑฯ‚ ฯ€ฮฑฯฮฑฮบฮฌฯ„ฯ‰.

ฮšฮฑฮปฮฟฯฮผฮต ฯŒฮปฮตฯ‚ ฮบฮฑฮน ฯŒฮปฮฟฯ…ฯ‚ ฯ€ฮฟฯ… ฯƒฯ…ฮผฮผฮตฯ„ฮตฮฏฯ‡ฮฑฯ„ฮต ฮฝฮฑ ฮผฮฟฮนฯฮฑฯƒฯ„ฮตฮฏฯ„ฮต ฯŒฯƒฮฑ ฮณฯฮฌฯˆฮฑฯ„ฮต ฮบฮฑฯ„ฮฌ ฯ„ฮท ฮดฮนฮฌฯฮบฮตฮนฮฑ ฯ„ฮทฯ‚ ฯƒฯ…ฮฝฮตฮดฯฮฏฮฑฯ‚ ฮผฮฑฯ‚ ฯ€ฮฑฯฮฑฮบฮฌฯ„ฯ‰ (โ€œLeave a replyโ€) ฮบฮฑฮน ฮฝฮฑ ฮบฯฮฑฯ„ฮฎฯƒฮฟฯ…ฮผฮต ฮฑฯ…ฯ„ฮฎ ฯ„ฮทฮฝ ฯ„ฯŒฯƒฮฟ ฮตฮฝฮดฮนฮฑฯ†ฮญฯฮฟฯ…ฯƒฮฑ ฯƒฯ…ฮถฮฎฯ„ฮทฯƒฮฎ ฮผฮฑฯ‚ ฮถฯ‰ฮฝฯ„ฮฑฮฝฮฎ, ฯ…ฯ€ฮตฮฝฮธฯ…ฮผฮฏฮถฮฟฮฝฯ„ฮฌฯ‚ ฯƒฮฑฯ‚, ฮฒฮตฮฒฮฑฮฏฯ‰ฯ‚, ฯŒฯ„ฮน ฮฑฯ…ฯ„ฮฎ ฮตฮฏฮฝฮฑฮน ฮผฮนฮฑ ฮดฮทฮผฯŒฯƒฮนฮฑ ฯ€ฮปฮฑฯ„ฯ†ฯŒฯฮผฮฑ ฮบฮฑฮน ฮท ฯ€ฯฯŒฯƒฮฒฮฑฯƒฮท ฮฑฮฝฮฟฮนฯ‡ฯ„ฮฎ ฯƒฯ„ฮฟ ฮบฮฟฮนฮฝฯŒ.

ฮ˜ฮฑ ฮธฮญฮปฮฑฮผฮต ฮฝฮฑ ฮผฮฌฮธฮฟฯ…ฮผฮต ฯ€ฮตฯฮนฯƒฯƒฯŒฯ„ฮตฯฮฑ  ฮณฮนฮฑ ฯ„ฮทฮฝ ฮตฮผฯ€ฮตฮนฯฮฏฮฑ ฯƒฮฑฯ‚ ฮผฮต ฮฑฯ…ฯ„ฮญฯ‚ ฯ„ฮนฯ‚ ฯƒฯ…ฮฝฮตฮดฯฮฏฮตฯ‚. ฮ‘ฮฝ ฯ„ฮฟ ฮตฯ€ฮนฮธฯ…ฮผฮตฮฏฯ„ฮต, ฯ€ฮฑฯฮฑฮบฮฑฮปฮฟฯฮผฮต ฮฑฯ†ฮนฮตฯฯŽฯƒฯ„ฮต ฮปฮฏฮณฮฟ ฯ‡ฯฯŒฮฝฮฟ ฯƒฮต ฮผฮนฮฑ ฯƒฯฮฝฯ„ฮฟฮผฮท ฮญฯฮตฯ…ฮฝฮฑ ฮดฯฮฟ ฮตฯฯ‰ฯ„ฮฎฯƒฮตฯ‰ฮฝ!

ฮ‘ฮบฮฟฮปฮฟฯ…ฮธฮฎฯƒฯ„ฮต ฯ„ฮฟฮฝ ฯƒฯฮฝฮดฮตฯƒฮผฮฟ:ย https://tinyurl.com/nmedg-survey


ฮ“ฮนฮฟฯ…ฯƒฮฟฯ…ฯฮฟฯฮผ


ฮ ฮทฮณฮฑฮฏฮฝฯ‰ ฯƒฯ…ฯ‡ฮฝฮฌ ฮบฮฑฮน ฮบฮฟฮนฯ„ฮฌฮถฯ‰
ฮ ฯฮฌฮณฮผฮฑฯ„ฮฑ ฯ€ฮฑฮปฮนฮฌ
ฮ ฯŒฯƒฮฟ ฯ€ฮฑฮปฮนฮฌ ฮบฮฑฮฝฮตฮฏฯ‚ ฮดฮตฮฝ ฮพฮญฯฮตฮน
ฮ ฮฟฯ…ฮธฮตฮฝฮฌ ฮดฮต ฮณฯฮฌฯ†ฮตฮน ยซฮฑฮฝฮฎฮบฮตฮนยป

ฮ ฯŒฯ„ฮต ฮฒฯฮญฮธฮทฮบฮฑฮฝ ฯŒฮปฮฑ ฯƒฯ„ฮฟ ฮดฯฯŒฮผฮฟ

ฮšฮตฮฝฯ„ฮฎฮผฮฑฯ„ฮฑ ฮฑฯ€ฯŒ ฯ‡ฮญฯฮนฮฑ ฯ„ฯฯ…ฯ€ฮทฮผฮญฮฝฮฑ
ฮฯ„ฮฟฯ…ฮปฮฌฯ€ฮนฮฑ ฯƒฮฑฯฮฑฮบฮฟฯ†ฮฑฮณฯ‰ฮผฮญฮฝฮฑ
ฮ”ฮฏฯ‡ฯ‰ฯ‚ ฯ„ฮฟฯ… ฮบฮฟฯ…ฯ„ฮฑฮปฮนฮฟฯ ฯ„ฮฑ ฮณฮปฯ…ฮบฮฌ
ฮ— ฯ€ฮฏฮบฯฮฑ ฮดฮนฮฌฯ‡ฯ…ฯ„ฮท ฯƒฯ„ฮฑ ฯฮฌฯ†ฮนฮฑ
ฮ›ฮนฯ‰ฮผฮญฮฝฮฑ ฮบฯฯŒฯƒฯƒฮนฮฑ ฮฒฯฮฟฮผฮตฯฮฌ ฯƒฯ„ฮฟฯ…ฯ‚ ฮบฮฑฮฝฮฑฯ€ฮญฮดฮตฯ‚
ฮ ฮฟฮปฯ…ฮบฮฑฮนฯฮฏฮฑ ฯƒฯ„ฮฑ ฮฏฮดฮนฮฑ ฮบฮฑฮน ฯƒฯ„ฮฑ ฮฏฮดฮนฮฑ
ฮšฮฑฯฮนฯŒฮปฮตฯ‚ ฮบฮฟฮฝฯƒฯŒฮปฮตฯ‚ ฯ€ฮฑฯƒฮฑฮฒฮนฯŒฮปฮตฯ‚
ฮ‘ฯ…ฯ„ฯŒ ฯ„ฮฟ ฯƒฯ„ฯฯŽฮผฮฑ ฮบฮฌฮฝฮตฮน ฮบฮฟฮนฮปฮนฮฌ
ฮฃฮฑ ฮฝฮฑ ฮบฮฟฮนฮผฯŒฯ„ฮฑฮฝ ฮผฯ€ฯฮฟฯฮผฯ…ฯ„ฮฑ
ฮ— ฮณฯ…ฮฝฮฑฮฏฮบฮฑ ฮผฮต ฯ„ฮฑ ฮดฮญฮบฮฑ ฯ€ฮฑฮนฮดฮนฮฌ
ฮ‘ฯฮผฮฑฮธฮนฮญฯ‚ ฮบฮปฮตฮนฮดฮนฮฌ ฯƒฯ„ฯฮฑฮฒฮฌ
(ฮˆฯฯ‰ฯ„ฮตฯ‚ ฮบฮปฮตฮนฮดฯ‰ฮผฮญฮฝฮฟฮน ฯƒฯ„ฮฑ ฯƒฯ…ฯฯ„ฮฌฯฮนฮฑ)
ฮฃฮต ฮผฮนฮฑ ฮณฯ‰ฮฝฮนฮฌ ฯ„ฮฟ ยซฮบฮฑฮปฮทฮผฮญฯฮฑ ฯƒฮฑฯ‚ยป ฮฎ
ยซฮฮฏฯˆฮฟฮฝ ฮฑฮฝฮฟฮผฮฎฮผฮฑฯ„ฮฑ ฮผฮท ฮผฯŒฮฝฮฑฮฝ ฯŒฯˆฮนฮฝยป

ฮ”ฮตฮฝ ฮตฮฏฮฝฮฑฮน ฮบฮฑฮฝฮญฮฝฮฑฯ‚ ฮตฮดฯŽ
ฮฆฯฮณฮฑฮฝฮต ฮผฮต ฯ„ฮทฮฝ ฮฌฮผฮฑฮพฮฑ ฯŒฮปฮฟฮน
ฮšฮน ฮฑฯ†ฮฎฯƒฮฑฮฝฮต ฯƒฮต ฮผฮฑฯ‚ ฯ„ฮฑ ฯ€ฯฮฌฮณฮผฮฑฯ„ฮฌ ฯ„ฮฟฯ…ฯ‚



ฮœฮฑฯฮฏฮฑ ฮšฮญฮฝฯ„ฯฮฟฯ…-ฮ‘ฮณฮฑฮธฮฟฯ€ฮฟฯฮปฮฟฯ…, 
ฮ•ฯ€ฮนฮปฮฟฮณฮญฯ‚ ฮบฮฑฮน ฯƒฯฮฝฮฟฮปฮฑ. ฮ ฮฟฮนฮฎฮผฮฑฯ„ฮฑ (1965-1995).
ฮฃฮบฯŒฯ€ฮตฮปฮฟฯ‚: ฮฮทฯƒฮฏฮดฮตฯ‚, 2001

Live Virtual Group Session: 12PM EST February 11th 2022

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this session!

For this session our text was the poemย The giver (for Berdis)ย byย James Baldwin, posted below.ย 

Our prompt was: โ€œThe hope of giving is…โ€

More details will be posted on this session, so check back again!

Participants are warmly encouraged to share what you wrote below (โ€œLeave a Replyโ€), to keep the conversation going here, bearing in mind that the blog of course is a public space where confidentiality is not assured.

Also, we would love to learn more about your experience of these sessions, so if youโ€™re able, please take the time to fill out a follow-up survey of one to two quick questions!

Please join us for our next sessionย Monday February 14th atย 6pm EST, ย with more times listed on ourย Live Virtual Group Sessionsย page.


The giver (for Berdis)ย byย James Baldwin


If the hope of giving
is to love the living,
the giver risks madness
in the act of giving.

Some such lesson I seemed to see
in the faces that surrounded me.

Needy and blind, unhopeful, unlifted,
what gift would give them the gift to be gifted?
          The giver is no less adrift
          than those who are clamouring for the gift.

If they cannot claim it, if it is not there,
if their empty fingers beat the empty air
and the giver goes down on his knees in prayer
knows that all of his giving has been for naught
and that nothing was ever what he thought
and turns in his guilty bed to stare
at the starving multitudes standing there
and rises from bed to curse at heaven,
he must yet understand that to whom much is given
much will be taken, and justly so:
I cannot tell how much I owe.



James Baldwin, "The giver (for Berdis)" from Jimmyโ€™s Blues. 
Copyright ยฉ 2014 by The James Baldwin Estate. 


Live Virtual Group Session: 6PM EST February 7th 2022

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this session!

For this session our text was the poemย Early Confessionย byย Carolyn Forchรฉ, posted below.ย 

Our prompt was: “If I had never…”

More details will be posted on this session, so check back again!

Participants are warmly encouraged to share what you wrote below (โ€œLeave a Replyโ€), to keep the conversation going here, bearing in mind that the blog of course is a public space where confidentiality is not assured.

Also, we would love to learn more about your experience of these sessions, so if youโ€™re able, please take the time to fill out a follow-up survey of one to two quick questions!

Please join us for our next sessionย Friday February 11th atย 12pm EST, ย with more times listed on ourย Live Virtual Group Sessionsย page.


Early Confession by Carolyn Forchรฉ
ย 
If I had never walked the snow fields, heard the iced birch,
leant against wind hard toward distant house, ever distant,
wind in the coat, snow over the boot tops, supper fires
in windows far across the stubbly farms, none of them
my house until the end, the last, and late, always late, despite how early
Iโ€™d set off wearing gloves of glass, a coat standing up by itself.
If I had never reached the house, but instead lain down in the drifts
to finish a dream, if I had finished, would I have 
reached the rest of my life, here, now, with you whispering: 
must not sleep, not rest, must not take flight, must wake.

Encuentros virtuales en vivo: Sรกbado 5 de Febrero, 13:00 EST

Nos acompaรฑaran nueve participantes desde Nueva York, Espaรฑa, Argentina, varios otros lugares.

Elegimos una imagen, Danza Afro-Cubana,” por Mario Carreรฑo.

La propuesta de escritura fue โ€œEscribe sobre una danzaโ€.

Aquรญ, ahora alentamos a los participantes que si asรญ lo desean, compartan lo que escribieron a continuaciรณn. Deja tu respuesta aquรญ, si deseas continuar la conversaciรณn. Pero antes, les recomendamos tener en cuenta que el blog es un espacio pรบblico donde, por supuesto, no se garantiza la confidencialidad.

Por favor, รบnase a nosotros en nuestra prรณxima sesiรณn en espaรฑol: El sรกbado 26 de febrero a las 13 hrs. o a la 1 pm EST (hora de Nueva York). Tambiรฉn, ofrecemos sesiones en inglรฉs. Ve aย  nuestra pรกgina de sesiones grupales virtuales en vivo.

ยกEsperamos verte pronto!



Danza Afro-Cubana por Mario Carreรฑo


Live Virtual Group Session: 12PM EST February 4th 2022

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this session!

For this session our text was the poemย Broomย byย Jim Harrison, posted below.ย 

Our prompt was: Write about remembering you’re alive.

More details will be posted on this session, so check back again!

Participants are warmly encouraged to share what you wrote below (โ€œLeave a Replyโ€), to keep the conversation going here, bearing in mind that the blog of course is a public space where confidentiality is not assured.

Also, we would love to learn more about your experience of these sessions, so if youโ€™re able, please take the time to fill out a follow-up survey of one to two quick questions!

Please join us for our next sessionย Monday February 7th atย 6pm EST, ย with more times listed on ourย Live Virtual Group Sessionsย page.


Broomย byย Jim Harrison

To remember youโ€™re alive
visit the cemetery of your father
at noon after youโ€™ve made love
and are still wrapped in a mammalian
odor that you are forced to cherish.
Under each stone is someoneโ€™s inevitable
surprise, the unexpected death
of their biology that struggled hard, as it must.
Now to home without looking back,
enough is enough.
En route buy the best wine
you can afford and a dozen stiff brooms.
Have a few swallows then throw the furniture
out the window and begin sweeping.
Sweep until the walls are
bare of paint and at your feet sweep
until the floor disappears. Finish the wine
in this field of air, return to the cemetery
in evening and wind through the stones
a slow dance of your name visible only to birds.