United Church of Christ in Medfield

Northern New Mexico

Today was set aside for conferees to do some sightseeing so we had nothing scheduled for the whole day.  Dave, an English professor at Georgia Southern Unversity who is in the workshop on fiction writing, and I headed out at 6:30 a.m. for (of course) Starbucks to make sure we started our day off properly.  Then we headed west to Bandelier National Monument about ah hour drive away.  This park is where the Anasazi, ancestors to the Pueblo Indians, built their homes in the side of cliffs.  We arrived as the park opened and virtually no tourists present.  We spent about 2 1/2 hours going through the trails and climbing up wooden ladders to explore their dwellings.  It was very interesting and the vistas were beautiful.

Thought for the Day

There is no disembodied Christian truth.  There’s no abstraction about the Christian life.  It is all intended to be lived in a coherent way.

—Eugene Peterson

Another Day at the Glen Workshop

At today’s workshop I was one of the six who presented a poem. Once again people were kind in their critique and i received some helpful information.  I have learned a lot from the workshop just hearing the class and the instructor critique the poems being presented.  I suspect that more than half the class has had some of their poems published.  I feel like such a rookie—it feels a bit overwhelming.  On the other hand, I have a lot of new information that i can begin to sift through.