by Stephanie Dale | Sep 30, 2023 | Ageing, Motherline, Slow Burn Exile, Un/silencing, Wellbeing-through-writing
A while back I was invited to attend a friend’s family celebration. It was her mother’s 90th birthday. Many generations were settled into a round of couches on a large, open verandah as cake was shared around. I was sitting beside my friend, on the other side of the...
by Stephanie Dale | Sep 23, 2023 | Ageing, Motherline, Slow Burn Exile, Un/silencing, Wellbeing-through-writing
I know why old people tell repetitive stories, over and over, to people they know have heard them before and are not interested in hearing them again. I learned this from my mother, who told repetitive family stories, over and over to a daughter she knew had heard...
by Stephanie Dale | Jul 28, 2023 | Walk & Write, Wellbeing-through-writing
“When you are in a car, beautiful places are a moment. When you stop the car, they are a cluster of moments. When you walk, beautiful places are an eternity carved into the soul.” I remember exactly where I was when I wrote that. I was walking through a backroad...
by Stephanie Dale | Jul 27, 2023 | Slow Burn Exile, Wellbeing-through-writing
In all the years I spent traveling through rural and remote areas on The Write Road, there was a refrain, a silent sub-text, a lingering whisper in our workshops and retreats: it’s not about you.Sometimes the whisper shapeshifted into a flood, most commonly in...
by Stephanie Dale | Jul 27, 2023 | Wellbeing-through-writing
“I WRITE BECAUSE I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO THINK UNTIL I READ WHAT I SAY.” Flannery O’Connor There’s no two ways about it – writing is good for us. I’m not speaking now of the writing of a book or a blog or whatever writing project is calling to us, although for...
