Becoming Magic: Words to Walk the Path

Becoming Magic: Words to Walk the Path

One-day workshop: Saturday, March 3rd, 10am –4pm, $35

Now through February 13th! All classes 20% off
or two people attend for price of one!

Writing is a way to climb from darkness to light, from light into light. Write together, write alone, in a daylong exploration of the lights of writing as it begins to illuminate your path.

Instructor: Lois Silverstein, Ph.D., is a registered Expressive Arts Therapist, Writing Consultant and Instructor at various universities, colleges and graduate schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has published five books of poems and prose, essays and reviews, and has written and performed the one-woman multi-media show VALIA, the story of a woman freedom fighter in Danzig, in WWII. She believes in writing as an art and a spiritual practice

WORD
On a cave wall, a discarded turtle shell, an abandoned skin.
WORD
Scraped with rock, stick, bone.
WORD
Beginning of the alphabet
of rising and falling –
when mountains sing
when men line up on the hill
when mother wraps her child and runs

Must! Must!

Like a pot boiling.
like a house about to burn down

Once upon a time…

after meat hangs in the larder
fire is lit
deer come into view
star appears

© Lois Silverstein 2011

Lois talks about the impact of words and how you can Become Magic:

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Exercise:

Respond to one of the following lines
with your own associations and thoughts.
Make your writing spontaneous,
without worrying about grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc.
Let yourself loose.

“for a moment in matter fixed”

“moving beyond the avenue of any heart”