In This Mid-Winter Time, an invitation to Go Deeper

Dear friends,

This week many of you received your copy of my new book of poems, Mending Prayer Rugs.
I have gotten many lovely notes from you, and am so grateful for your encouragement.

Today, I am sharing with my readers a complementary offering, free for the asking. I have created a companion piece — a study guide — to Mending Prayer Rugs. This guide is intended to help you go deeper into the poems, either alone or in a group of fellow writers or seekers, to use the poems as entryways into your own spiritual reflections.

For many years, I found poetry more than a bit daunting, in spite of the fact that I had published several nonfiction books and hundreds of articles. I admired my poet friends from what I felt to be the great distance between their mystical ability with words and my own plodding attempts at meaning.

In private, I tried my hand at poems, but it took many many years before I felt confident enough to show them to anyone, much less try to get one or two published.

Today, these many years later, I see the writing of poems as a form of prayer, a spiritual practice. It is as important to me as a process of discovering the voice of truth within and around me, as it is in the sharing of my discoveries with others.

In the months ahead, I will be speaking to groups and teaching poetry as a spiritual practice, and I am eager to hear from you, if this strikes a cord.

The guide is free and available to you simply by emailing me in the comment window below (or by clicking into the Contact page). And if you know anyone who you feel would like to join us on our journey, send me their contact information and I am happy to connect with them.

I wish you peace and blessings,
Kathleen