Transition

Wow! My 65th birthday has come and gone! I am retired from the practice of family medicine and I get to spend my days in my studio, resting, reflecting, relaxing and creating!

I have created three workshops and offered each of them in the months of January and February, at least once.

One is called Life Review, and is a series of 6 sessions, spaced 2 weeks apart, learning how to write one’s memoir, and sharing this journey with one’s fellow participants. The first group will be finishing up at the end of March. We have had a great time together! I will offer this workshop again in fall 2020.

The second one is called Collaging your Hopes and Dreams. Each year, I have gathered during the last week of December with friends and family to create a collage of hopes and dreams for the new year ahead. It has always been an afternoon of laughter and fun and I thought it would be lovely to offer this experience to others. Two groups of folks have gathered to do this process, and fun was had by all, while creating a lovely collage to take home. Making a Hopes and Dreams collage can be done anytime during the year, but seems to be especially meaningful when done near January 1.

The third workshop is called Lectio Divina. I discovered Lectio Divina about 2 years ago and have really enjoyed using it in my own life. It’s a way to interact with a sacred reading, or nature, or a poem, or a painting, to draw closer to God. Practising it on a regular basis, I have found I feel more like the tree described in Psalm 1 : “ He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf doesn not wither.” I offered this workshop in February and plan to offer it again in June 2020.

If any of these workshops appeal to you, please let me know and I will be sure to notify you when a solid date and time is set!