“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
Month: January 2023
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
A Writer's Life 