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...
by Stephanie Dale | Jul 27, 2023 | Un/silencing, Walk & Write, Wellbeing-through-writing
The unknown is good for us. I know, right? It’s terrifying! At times, anyway. Walking and writing are leaders, both. Where one leads us through the landscapes of the physical world around us, the other leads us inwards, through the landscapes of our own interior. The...
by Stephanie Dale | Jul 27, 2023 | Wellbeing-through-writing
When pioneer aviator Amelia Earhart said ‘courage is the price life exacts for peace’, it’s too easy to say she was talking about flying. What she was talking about was the longing of the human heart. My kids grew up with an Amelia poster on our wall. It said: ‘when...