“This is no time for cynicism or giving in to despair; this is the time we have come to life to live, the time to work for what we truly love.”

• Michael Meade

Pour water into the kettle and set it to boil as night softens into morning through the kitchen 

windows and patio doors

Place the enamel filter in the top of the blue and white speckled French coffee pot 

Fill coffee and chicory into the enamel chamber

Place the perforated lid in the chamber 

Place the coffee pot in a small pan half filled with water

Turn the flame on low to keep the coffee pot warm  

At the kettle’s first whisper, pour the hot water over the perforated lid slowly until the middle 

chamber is full 

I continue to pour until the pot is two-thirds full

Place the freckle blue top on the pot

While the coffee is dripping slide open the patio door

Breathe in the cool morning scents of lemon tree, ornamental pear tree, freshly mown grass

In the still rising morning sun, place a heavy cotton mint green place mat and napkin on the glass table

On the place mat set  a blue and white weeping willow patterned china demitasse cup, saucer  

and spoon

Place a jar of condensed milk next to the saucer 

Return to the kitchen

Remove the coffee pot from the pan 

Bring the pot to the patio.

Pour

Sit 

Cherish the black brown liquid 

Spoon a dollop of condensed milk from the jar 

Stir and stir the brown-blackness and watch as it lightens to cocoa brown, dark tan, dark 

bronze, to liquid toffee 

Lift the cup to your lips 

Breathe in wisps of steam and deliciousness

Sip

As the morning continues to brighten into day, revel in the tastes of roasted beans, chicory, chocolate, and caramel

Linger in the ardent sweetness at the bottom of the cup. 

“Never trust your fears, they don’t know your strengths.” — Athena Singh

Exquisite Creative Self Care for Women Writers and Creators in Community  

Be held in imagining, creating, implementing, rejuvenating, and maintaining wholistic-exquisite-creative self-care for our minds, bodies, and souls with abundant resourcing for ourselves, alone, within our immediate and extended families, and in our creative community(s). Bring you journal, sketch pad, colored pencils, brushes and paints as well as your computer and writing pad.  Maximum Participants: 5

Sunday, September 18, 2022  10 am-3 pm PST

Trilogy at Rio Vista is a gated community: I will provide your name for entry at front gate for entry when you register. 

Travel: Please enter Trilogy Rio Vista via Highway 12 & Summerset Road. Your GPS may direct you to Airport Road which is accessible to residents only. From San Francisco and Oakland is approximately 1 hour, from the North Bay, not more than 1.5 hours. 

Arrival: Please arrive 30 minutes to get settled, meet your writing partners for the day and to enjoy filtered water, coffee, tea & fresh fruit offerings. , and late morning vegan and vegetarian friendly food offerings. 

Food: Offerings of fresh ruit & the fixings for a hearty vegan and vegetarian friendly salad will be available at Noon.

*Note the time our day will end from 4-3 pm in order for our writing community to attend the memorial services for the son of a writing community member

Remuneration: AWL Member $85.00    Non-Member: $100.00

In Joy,

A 

Trilogy, Rio Vista

Andrea Canaan, MSW, MFA

1004 Diamante

Rio Vista, Ca. 94105

415-515-5943

andreacanaan@gmail.com

Pay Here with PayPal    or          Venmo  @Andrea-Canaan-1

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Saturday Morning Workshopping                  No Fee                         $50.00 per session

Andrea R. Canaan, MSW, MFA

1004 Diamante – Rio, Vista, Ca. 94571

415-515-5943

andreacanaan@gmail.com

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Pay Here with PayPal         or         Venmo  @Andrea-Canaan-1

A song to begin your week:

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