Retreat

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Today I am gathering myself and a few writers to “retreat” at my home (Thundering Clouds) and listen the the words, ideas and musings that are willing to be written. In dedication to William Stafford I hold open (free) writer’s days at my home on some Fridays.

The fires are going in the stoves and inside me.

May each of you give yourself this day to retreat, find the words to speak or write and bravely take the next step in your creative life.

Some quotes on writing for your inspiration:

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.  The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.  ~Sylvia Plath

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.  ~Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977

The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.  ~Norbet Platt

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by.  How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?  For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone.  That is where the writer scores over his fellows:  he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.  ~Vita Sackville-West


Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn’t wait to get to work in the morning:  I wanted to know what I was going to say.  ~Sharon O’Brien

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  3. Muitos não sabem como ocorre a impotência masculina, e nesse sentido, o conhecimento de que a função erétil está ligada ao cérebro e a medula é pouco disseminado.

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