Community and Kindness

So, I spent my morning crying and then smiling and then crying again. All because of the kindness of the people in our writing community.

I recently got some bad news financially and needed to cancel the workshops I had booked for next spring. Sending those emails was rough… but someone offered me a scholarship to cover their workshop and I was just so moved by their kindness I burst into tears (in my staffroom at my desk at my school on this Christmas Eve morning). I am so grateful for their generosity. I hope that when I am more financially stable that I will be able to pay this wonderful gift forward.

I want to send love and light during the holidays to all the new writing friends I have made in these pandemic years as well as the writing friends I have had since my MFA days. Being able to connect virtually through social media has been a gift.

You all are gifts!

Happy Holidays to all!