Introduction - Sarah

This is my fourth class with Mark.  I love opportunities to learn/grow/change, and these classes offer all of that.  I knew nothing about Simone Weil prior to this class, but that was irrelevant to my interest in the class.  I knew nothing about Diane di Prima prior to Mark's class about her and her poetry last fall, and I am so grateful that I read her memoir, "Recollections of My Life as a Woman".  I still think back to passages in that book and the feelings they stirred in me.

For the past twenty years, I had not written anything other than letters to clients.  Last summer, I began writing again in the first class I took with Mark.  It felt like looking over a cliff, especially the first time I posted on the blog.  I am so thankful I did something I was fearful of, because I grew in the process.  Now I write for pleasure - particularly with my two daughters, who both have set an example of writing for me in the past few years.  I look forward to Mark's interesting prompts and where the writing takes my thoughts!

If you read the intro to the Share the Wealth I did last fall, you will know that I don't live in a bubble.  That is wonderful in many respects, but I also crave some time in a bubble to share thoughts I could not safely verbalize in this small town and to listen to new ideas I would not hear here.  I am selfishly using all of you in the class to create a bubble for myself.  So, please share and write in the blog, because I love reading what all of you have to say!