At the 2012 Festival of Faith & Writing, poet and author Thomas Lynch spoke to a room full of aspiring writers eager to learn from him how to craft our own essays, poems, and books. He told stories of his work as an undertaker, how he stood with families during powerful moments of grief, loss, and final farewells. He spoke of how our culture needs to value and … [Read more...]
Festival of Faith & Writing 2010: Friday Highlights
The Festival is over. I've returned home to laundry and lunches. I've also typed e-mails with numerous typos due to the blur of fatigue. Dare I continue the story even though the fun is fading into quotidian reality? I'll try...let's see how it goes.After Eugene Peterson's talk on Friday, my anonymous friend headed off to visit a friend while Leslie Leyland Fields and I … [Read more...]
