poemcrazy

with susan wooldridge

why write?

My writing life began in my first diary that I named “Dottie” after I read The Diary of Anne Frank when I was thirteen. I became a scribbler and I’m still sustained by blank pages of various journals.

I stumbled backwards into California Poets in the Schools and discovered that playing with language can transform us.

Guided by prompts, a teen named Kenya in the Juvenile Hall wrote,

“I’m a turquoise circle rolling down a mountain

I’m a drum beating in the rain with no one to hear me

I’m the number fifty, so far from the end and so far from the beginning

I’m what you call life, hard to hold”

It became my mission to write my book (with mountains of help)

poemcrazy: freeing your life with words, which may have brought you here.

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today’s scribbling in my journal on the left, below…

When I write, especially in my journal, I enter a safer, boundless realm. On a flat page with the right pen anything is possible. We can quiet our minds and open to whispers from God knows where--likely a place of divinity. For me, especially in the safety of my journal, I often experience bottomlessness and joy.

Let’s do this together.

Join me. We’ll gather words.

Tumble, spin, tap, flutter.

And begin to free our lives with words

in the mysterious wordpool around and within us.

With flippers.

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At our first coaching session, I couldn’t stop talking and I kept saying to Nadia, “and then I’ll let you go.” Now my Substack sister, Nadia Munarolo-Kurjata creates “love notes” and she created this one for me.

LOVE AND WELCOME,

❤️✍🏻

Susan