“I am no longer accepting the
things I cannot change. I am
changing the things I cannot
accept.”
Angela Y. Davis
AWL Meditation-Writitng Prompt
Make Some Time to Greet the AWL Writing–Creative New Year Together!
Get out your calendars to welcome and mark the
day and time Suma Nagaraj who has traveled here
from Bangalore, India and can finally join us without
time zone restrictions.
Squeeze us in to welcome new members:
Annie Kunjappy, Patsy Creedy & Jess
Yes for many of us the times and days are hard to
make work. Please try to make this week’s groups work.
Some of us have taken a pause or a break from AWL Groups.
Or we are a home you have not visited in a while. Please
come to one of your writing and creative homes this week to
let us celebrate together beginning our writing and creative
new year.
For some of us AWL is no longer a writing home,
yet we have good memories, writing friends and
writing partners among us. Come and say hello
and celebrate the new creative year with us.
AWL Group Links:
Tuesday Women of Color Writer’s Group 10-11:30 am PST 1:00 2:30 EST
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85897975982?pwd=QzRQNnFxMFlwS0k2SmtUMVJyYmluZz09
Wednesday AWL Women’s Writers Group 1-2:30 pm PST 4-5:30 pm PST
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88086719141?pwd=UTQ2ZWRGbDlKM1poSTIyRGNNaDNZZz09
Wednesday AWL Women’s Writer’s Group Extended
Wednesday Group will end at 2:30 pm PST. Beginning January 11, 2023, those who chose to do so will take a fifteen minute break and reconvene for an additional 1.5 hours dedicated to writing & or reading from works in progress.
In Joy,
A
Andrea R. Canaan, MSW, MFA
1004 Diamante – Rio, Vista, Ca. 94571
415-515-5943
andreacanaan.blog
Radical Creative Womanist Workshopping in Community 2023 Dates
Must have at least four participants for workshop to convene
Morning Session 9:00 am – 12:30 pm session
Afternoon Session 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm session in Rio Vista
Saturday, January 14th & 28th 2023
Saturday, February 11th & 25th 2023
March 11th and 25th 2923
April 8th & 22nd 2023
May 13th & 27th 2023
Members: $30.00 per session Non Members: $60.00 per session
Individual Face to Face & Zoom or Facetime Sessions are available
In Joy,
A
Andrea R. Canaan, MSW, MFA
1004 Diamante – Rio, Vista, Ca. 94571
415-515-5943
andreacanaan.blog
Pay Here with PayPal or Venmo @Andrea-Canaan-1
AWL Meditation-Writitng Prompt
Write into the image or allow the words tonfuse your imagination.
“You have to go the way your blood beats.
If you don’t live the only life you have,
you won’t live some other life,
you won’t live any life at all.”
– James Baldwin
Winter Beginnings
A Writer’s Life – Winter Beginnings
Twenty Minute Daily Practices
For Creative Rejuvenation and Sustenance
5 Minute Stretch or More
5 Minute Meditation or More
5 Minute Affirmations
- Self I thank you for
- Self I forgive you for
- Self I commit to you that
- Five Minute Write into Prompt or Other Creative Writing
- Share Twenty Minute Daily Practices with a writing partner(s) for
- Support and Accountability
- Text or email or call and say out loud your
- “I thank yous to support & accountability partner
- Partner texts back: “Received”
A source for meditation follows:
The Great Bell Chant Thich Naht Hanh
Use your own music or meditation or affirmations or
personal prayers or songs to support meditation as you wish
I will gladly be your Twenty Minute Daily Practices Writing Partner.
415-515-5943
“Remember that sometimes
not getting what you want is
a wonderful stroke of luck.”
– Dalai Lama
January 1, 2023
Self
I thank you for the wind,
Rain and cold as well as
Sun heat
Whatever the turnings of
day and night bring for
all of our living
I forgive you for not being
Present constantly, consistently,
Conscientiously to receive the
Gifts and teachings of our natural
Worlds
I commit to be
More curious
More constant
More consistent
More conscientious
More respectful and in
More wonder in our natural worlds
Winter Births
I am here
Between
&
Before
The coming nows
Our souls hurtling
From lives and time’s completions
The stars, suns and moons
Moving in star’s light time
To arrive long–long years before
These ourselves are born
All that is needed, wanted
Is carry in the star dust of our being as
Memories of our last selves
Curls into Fire flies dancing in long grass
Fiddle heads tightly furled
Figs’ inward flowers seeded to bloom
We have chosen these woman to carry us to full term
To bring premortal and primordial worlds’
Dreamings and knowings to and through us
So that we may raise them
So that they may raise us
To fulfill our cycles of destined returns
Among clouds of star dust.
© Andrea Canaan
Atlanta Georgia
December 2022
The Gifts of These Days and Nights
The Gifts of These Days and Nights
May we fill with gratitude with all we have
May we share our selves, our time, our resources
May we be at peace with ourselves alone
May we be in remembrance of those gone before us
May we allow our endings in grace
May we embrace our beginnings with courage and delight
May we feast, drum, sing, and dance in love and prayer
in the lights and gifts of these coming days and nights
© Andrea Canaan
Atlanta, Georgia
December 23, 2022
Let Us Go Down
Let us go down
Lay down in song and prayer
Into winter’s calming, quieting rest.
Let us go down to rest
Ease our souls, our minds, our hearts
While celestial orbs journey back
Toward spring’s promised return to
Revive us,
Awaken us, renew us,
Repurpose us, rededicate us to
Ourselves, each other, our families,
Our communities, our worlds.
Let us go down
Lay down in song and prayer
As we
Light candles and burn purple mountain sage
For those long gone and
Those new souls just crossing over
Let us go down
Lay down in song and prayer
For their welcome and
For our eventual return.
In Joy,
A
© Andrea R. Canaan
Atlanta, Georgia
Revised December 2022
A Writer’s Life Offerings & Links 2022-2023
Monthly Membership $120.00
Offerings
Winter Gathering 12/21/22
Weekly Prompts & Mediations
Tuesday Women of Color Group
Wednesday Writing Group
Individual Writing Practice
Radical Creative Womanist
Workshopping Solo &in Community
8:00 – 11:30 am session &
1:00 – 4:30 pm session in Rio Vista
RCWWIC 2023 Dates
January 7th & 21st 2023
February 11th & 25th 2023
March 11th and 25th 2923
April 8th & 22nd 2023
May 6th & 20th 2023
Summer Away Camp Planning in Progress for Summer 2023
Links:
Tuesday Women of Color Writer’s Group 10-11:30 am PST 1:00 2:30 EST
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85897975982?pwd=QzRQNnFxMFlwS0k2SmtUMVJyYmluZz09
Wednesday AWL Women’s Writers Group 1-2:30 pm PST 4-5:30 pm PST
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88086719141?pwd=UTQ2ZWRGbDlKM1poSTIyRGNNaDNZZz09
AWL 2022 Winter Gathering December 21, 2022 4:00 pm PST 7:00 pm EST
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81294386127?pwd=MW5DeUNSZ2xmOEVEYTFsbnVCeklzdz09
In Joy,
A
Andrea R. Canaan, MSW, MFA
1004 Diamante – Rio, Vista, Ca. 94571
415-515-5943
andreacanaan.blog
Pay Here with PayPal or Venmo @Andrea-Canaan-1
AWL Meditation–Prompt
“Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.”
– Pema Chodron
A Writer's Life 