by Stephanie Dale | Sep 8, 2024 | Longing, Pilgrimage, Un/silencing, Walk & Write, Wellbeing-through-writing, Writing
It can be lonely writing a book. The writer and her story, bound in time, imagination and memory. It’s not uncommon to feel as if the book is devouring you, as if in all the world there is only the writer and the page, no witness, no ally, no point – just...
by Stephanie Dale | Aug 18, 2024 | Longing, Un/silencing, Wellbeing-through-writing, Writing
Greetings from the coming spring. Where I am, on a small island at the bottom of the world, this means fluffy sparrows in the bare branches of the peach tree and bulbs unfurling from the wintered earth. Writing too is an unfurling. Writing is thought made matter,...
by Stephanie Dale | Aug 4, 2024 | Ageing, Longing, Pilgrimage, Walk & Write, Wellbeing-through-writing, Writing
In the twenty years I’ve been writing I’ve only ever written two sentences I can recall at will: The first is kind of clunky, yet I love it for its sentiment: “Like a good country song that goes round and back again, mountains everywhere sing the...
by Stephanie Dale | Jul 26, 2024 | Longing, Pilgrimage, Un/silencing, Walk & Write, Wellbeing-through-writing
Aren’t you exhausted by the promises of our times? I know I am! Big words: transformation, authenticity, potential, empowerment … and at the end of the day … you’re still you. Not all human beings are born to have the whole world sing our name....
by Stephanie Dale | Jul 25, 2024 | Longing, Pilgrimage, Un/silencing, Walk & Write, Wellbeing-through-writing, Writing
On my last Camino I met a German woman called Annetta. At the beginning of the journey she was all archetypal German precision in her personal presentation, neat tidy clipped self-contained. Half way through the pilgrimage I glanced across a village square and there...
by Stephanie Dale | Jul 10, 2024 | Longing, Un/silencing, Wellbeing-through-writing
Dream on … Here’s something funny. In all the writing groups currently underway one among many common themes is new writers announcing “I really haven’t done much writing this week”. We laugh. We drill down. Turns out they did write. They...
