Daily Nourishment (and Announcements!) for April 1-30, 2025
Please visit the links below for this month’s SDW Daily Nourishment offerings using previous Spiritual Direction for Writers® posts or emails. Enjoy!
Please Note: The links are from the past, so any announcements in the links are most likely no longer relevant. And there might be some repeated Pauses, Prompts, and Practices here and there. Repeats are not a problem because every time you return to a familiar SDW Pause, Prompt, and Practice you bring a different version of yourself that’s been formed by all the things you’ve experienced, thought, discovered, gained, and lost since the last time you encountered the them.
Because all of life is the writing life and we are always being formed to make the art we will make when it’s time to make the art we will make.
Here are a few announcements that are definitely relevant for the coming days and weeks:
>>> Here’s a list of current SDW offerings
>>>Birmingham: Magic City Poetry Festival Poetry Salon on Thursday, April 10 from 6:30-8 p.m.
>>>Online: Magic City Poetry Festival Poetry and Process with Michelle Ortega on Sunday, April 13 from 3-3:45 p.m. CT
>>> Birmingham: Happy Women Dinners BRUNCH with Actress/Author/Thought Leader Tina Lifford on Sunday, April 27 from noon-2 p.m. CT. Please email Jill@HappyWomenDinners.com to RSVP. ($125)
April 1: Trick Your Brain into Loosening Up
April 2: Poems and More with Jose Hernandez Diaz
April 3: Long, long, long ago with Anonymous 4 and Lauren Winner
April 4: Sources of Delight
April 5: Poems and more with Jose Hernandez Diaz (Part 2)
April 6: “Ode to the Overlooked Minimalist Painting in the Gallery” by Jose Hernandez Diaz
April 7: Poetry, Play, and Creating New Endings
April 8: Develop Your Somatic Vocabulary with a Tool from Aundi Kolber
April 9: When Laughter is a Prayer with Kaveh Akbar
April 10: A Vital Necessity
April 11: Look Up
April 12: The Bones and the Skeleton of Language
April 13: A Place to Put Yourself
April 14: “There are things that you cannot not know” with Kerry James Marshall
April 15: “Rememory is both a reconciliation and a vexation, both a healing and a wounding”
April 16: Everything That Has Ever Happened Keeps Happening
April 17: “God Made My Whole Body” with Ashley M. Jones
April 18: Good Friday with a Poem and Essay by Pádraig Ó Tuama
April 19: A Revision Exercise for Holy Saturday from Lauren Winner
April 20: Easter, Dandelions, and More
April 21: No Life Is All Bleak
April 22: It Looks Like You’re Just Sitting There
April 23: Which Stories Have Been Omitted?
April 24: Then I Remember
April 25: We Rediscover Who We Are
April 26: More World Everywhere
April 27: It’s My Own Mystery I’m Looking At
April 28: We Keep Making the Best of It
April 29: The Very Reason That I Write
April 30: A Secret Collaborator
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