Steph Ament
On cauldron wombs and middles
I'm heading out soon on one of the first solo trips I've made since becoming a mom. It's a personal retreat in Tulum, Mexico, with...
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Root Words Writing Life
Creative encouragement to unearth the hidden treasures of voice.
For many years, I struggled to find the boundaries between my editing/translating work and my creative work. On one side, are the nit-picky details of syntax and sense; on the other, the "wild mind" meanderings of freewrites and poems.
What I've learned is, there are no boundaries. We are not monochrome reflections, but deeply varied landscapes. Shifting mosaics. Kaleidoscopes, walking.
My creative work feeds my "work work," and vice versa, and each helps the other to evolve over time.
I wonder if this is the same for you.
If you're curious about my writing, or about how Root Words Writing Life can help you with yours, take a peak below.
"Now that our sound is the sound of clouds moving,
or berries reddening, or the moon shining,
which is to say, no sound at all,
let the story come, and be spoken."
- Alice Toley
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"What if writing were a simple, significant, yet necessary way to achieve spiritual, emotional, and psychic wholeness? to synthesize thought and feeling, to understand how feeling relates to events in our lives and vice versa?
What if writing were as important and as basic a human function and as significant to maintaining and promoting our psychic and physical wellness as, say, exercise, healthful food, pure water, clean air, rest and repose, and some soul-satisfying practice?"
- Luise DeSalvo, Writing as a Way of Healing
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