Carol Henderson on Open to Hope: Writing Is a Lifeline
Carol Henderson, author of Losing Malcolm: A Mother’s Journey Through Grief and Farther Along: The Writing Journey of Thirteen …
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Much Obliged
It is a warm August morning in 2000, and I am sitting in the car parked just outside the small …
Writing for Resilience
This piece is reposted from UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine’s Newsroom: Narratives That Are Shared: Writing for Resilience …
One step
One step, I reminded my visitors, one step down, one step up. The floor is not level all the way …
Kindness and Episodes of Sunshine
I still listen for weather reports. The first post I wrote for this blog was full of them. I noticed …
Why We Write
We reblog a post from Marianna Crane’s blog Nursing Stories. Marianna asks the question of readers, Why do you write? …
Hope and wild things
Betsy posted a reflection on Wendell Berry’s “The Peace of Wild Things” on this blog about a month ago just …
Lightly
I look for light–especially in this season. And though the darkness can seem oppressive, I am grateful—even joyful—for the cracks in …
Reflections of blue sky
On a gray day when I saw no blue in the sky, I saw this reflection of pieces of blue …
Reflections from a summer walk
Some observations and reflections from a summer day’s walk: Each day as I try to walk farther along on this path, I …
Water and Blooms and Light
Once more I have been thinking of ponds, lilies and dazzle. Or maybe more specifically, water and blooms and light. At …
Farther Along with Eloquent Light
Ansel Adams taught us to appreciate the artistry of photography and showed us how to write with light. Our Farther Along writing …
Dottye: Our last name is Farther Along
Many helped Dottye celebrate her work developing the educational program at SECU Family House in Winston-Salem last night with a …
Carol Henderson on Writing and Grief
“Writing saved my life,” said Carol Henderson. Most of us in the Farther Along writing group would say the same thing, …
More Daffodils
Inspired in part by Carol’s post on this blog, Back Yard Alchemy, I walked outside to my thawing back yard …
Writing Toward Healing sessions planned
Writing Toward Healing: 2016 FREE Workshops for Adults Grieving the Loss of a Loved One Carol Henderson, author of Farther …
A heart’s constant project
The prompt for this writing was the poem “Want” by Carrie Fountain. Read the whole poem here. These lines were …
Writing toward healing reading on Monday, November 30
If you’re in the Winston-Salem area, or not too far away, do join us on Monday night, November 30, 6 …
Grief therapy two (Sometimes it is not where you expect it to be or I am part of all I have met and then some)
More about “grief therapy”*: I remember a small epiphany I had after a worship service at a retreat in the mountains …
Grief therapy
My aunt Lucile lost her 21-year-old daughter and unborn grandchild in the summer of 1965. Brenda was one of my …
