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MEASURING OUR DAYS

-- A weekend of journal writing,
7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, through 2 p.m. Monday, Columbus Day, Oct. 13, 2003, led by Donna Hardy, M.A., MFT and Clare Morris, Ph.D., MFT.

"Tell me," Mary Oliver asks "what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" The question, from her poem "The Summer Day," is a challenge handed down to us at any age; but at that moment when we first realize that everything dies "at last and too soon," that the years do not stretch endlessly ahead, the question can become a guiding image.

This will be a weekend of developing that image, a time to pick up threads from the past, examine them for wear and tear, and see what we want to keep and what we want to pass on. A time for sorting, an autumn cleaning. Imagine yourself coming away from the weekend trim, cleared, pared down, resolved to take on Mary Oliver's challenge, which is always one of paying attention, loving fully, and accepting what is.

In addition to Oliver, we will look to Helen Luke, Florida Scott Maxwell, and others. We always use writing, art, story, and film to explore, in the privacy of our individual journals, and in the container that the weekend provides, the mystery of the topic at hand. What the weekend adds to our writing is time and structure and someone else to cook and clean the counters.

Clare Morris and Donna Hardy are family therapists and poets with a long history of doing workshops at Angela Center and elsewhere.
Enrollment is limited to 24 women. The cost for tuition, meals and a room of one's own is $375.

Twenty CE credits hours are available for MFT and LCSW licensure (PCE#1467).

2003

7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, through 2 p.m. Monday, Columbus Day, Oct. 13, 2003