what’s your story? it’s all in the telling…
Rebecca Solnit
My love of Monhegan is not a secret. Since 2005 the island has become an inspiring place for me to return.
To know myself.
To listen with curiosity.
To find the courage to speak.
To trust my voice.
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For the fourth year, I invite you to join me for an intimate retreat on island. Our program is an embodied book group as we journey and journal through the words of Rebecca Solnit’s poetic memoir The Faraway Nearby, a beautiful and profound book of essayistic reflection on memory, family, grief, travel, and storytelling. As much as the book is a memoir, it is a book about place and the places that hold our stories, both the ones that soothe and stir.
The Faraway Nearby: stillness, story, sea
September 18-22, 2024
Monhegan, Maine
I’m thrilled to consider the possible ways Solnit’s storytelling will become the guide to writing our own. Together, we will write through the island's topography, the geography of our senses, and our storied experiences. There will be ample time to search for sea glass and hike the trails through Cathedral Woods to the rocky shores of Pebble Beach. Special guests will share their own creativity as another opening to our own. Through writing, ritual, and restorative yoga, we will meditate, celebrate, and honor the variations of our authentic voices, as can only happen when you find yourself on this artist's island 10 miles out to sea.
The Faraway Nearby is limited to eight participants ~ I hope you will join me this year!
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