Recap Letter (examples)

Recap Letter Examples: 

From Nan:

Beloveds, 

What a tender session. I didn’t expect to cry so much. Thank you for holding space for grief as well as gratitude. I’m humbled to be in the company of such kind-hearted people. Felt good to lean in. Thank you. Blessings on your week. (This is a real example from an actual week. Write something true here, reflective of your actual experience.)

love,

Nan

Upcoming:
Confluence March 11th! (Yes please, invite your friends to listening by sharing the link.) Drop me a line if you are thinking about reading!
There’s one more spot open in my Thursday morning group starting March 18th.
Tiffany has a Monday evening series starting March 29th.
(Important to include Confluence and an invitation to the River Writing schedule overall.)

Poems:
Ode to the Heart by Ellen Bass from Like A Beggar
Call Me By My Name by Déjà Baptiste from The Black Trans Prayer Book
Eve Remembering by Toni Morrison
(Link to sites the poets clearly agreed to publish on, especially their own websites. No un-vetted blogs here please.) 

From MBJC: 

Friends!

What a pleasure to spend Sunday afternoon with you all, enlivened by your specific details. 

Natalie Goldberg reminds us:

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. … We must become writers who accept things as they are, come to love the details, and step forward with a yes on our lips so there can be no more noes in the world, noes that invalidate life and stop these details from continuing.

If love specifies, we generated a lot of love. We stepped forward. Yes!

The poems I brought:

Let me know privately if you’d like me to email you the text of “Wedding Dresses” and “Light,” which I was not able to find online. You can follow the links to the published sources.

Resources for The River Under the River:

  • The Reservoir: https://riverwriting.com/reservoir password: radicalkindness
  • Here you will find: 
    • information about preparing for your practice session
    • poetry & poetry resources
    • schedule + links for our practice sessions and the recurring Current on Monday afternoons
  • For companionship and co-working while building your own River Writing curriculum:

The Current: Mondays, Noon-2pm MST

Recurring Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83666101614

Upcoming:

  • Tiffany will facilitate our next Return to the River practice session, Sunday Feb. 28, 2-4pm MST
  • Two Hours at the Table, with Chloe on Tuesday March 9, and with me, MaryBeth, on Wednesday April 7
  • Check the River Writing schedule for openings in Tiffany’s Monday evening series, starting March 29; and check back in for news of a possible new evening series with Debbie.

That was an abundance of details! It must mean that I really love you! And, indeed, I really do.

With gratitude for our shared practice,

MB

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