Slow Magic Writing Sanctuary
November 2–16
The Slow Magic Writing Sanctuary is a gathering place for those who believe in the quiet spell of words, not as performance but as presence. This harvest-to-hibernation season, our theme is incantation — the way language becomes a kind of magic when we speak from the slower center of our lives.
Here, writing is a practice of listening. Words arrive in their own rhythm. Attention becomes the work. Through daily invitations, we practice drawing meaning from ordinary life, letting language hold what matters, awaken what is waiting, and return us to ourselves. No pressure. No perfection. Just the aliveness of noticing and naming, together.
A hundred moments of attention.
A hundred ways of returning.
A hundred small things, which is no small thing at all.
Writing without having to get it right. Without rushing. Without knowing where it’s going. Writing for your own hunger, curiosity, and care. Writing as refuge. Writing as devotion. Writing as a way of anchoring yourself in lived life, ordinary and sublime, awake, present, and letting language happen.
From this, a real and steady writing practice takes root. Ideas begin to emerge. A different way of being with yourself becomes possible — without pressure, without demand for outcome, without insisting on being extraordinary.
Here, curiosity and attention have room to breathe. There is an art to this kind of writing, one that unfolds through staying.
The upcoming Slow Magic Writing Sanctuary is a gathering place for those who believe in the quiet spell of words, not as performance but as presence. This harvest to hibernation season, our theme is incantation — the way language can become a kind of magic when we speak from the slow center of our lives. Here, writing is not about getting it right or being productive; it’s about listening closely, letting the words arrive in their own rhythm, and honoring the alchemy of attention. Through daily prompts, we’ll practice conjuring meaning from the ordinary, letting our words become spells that hold what matters, awaken what’s waiting, and return us to ourselves. No pressure. No perfection. Just the aliveness of noticing and naming, together.
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There is much in this world that cries out in urgency. And much that clammors for our attention, telling us everything is immediate and leaving us scattered and numb.
To resist the constant consuming and consumerist pull for more and more takes real work, the kind that asks us to slow down enough to know what matters and to live and learn at the pace of the body's heart beating. To take back our attention and offer it to real life, to what matters, happens as we learn to listen to our lives and write our way toward attention in the slowness of body's breath.
We do this together, slowing down into our own body’s knowing, attention as care, writing our worlds, offering our attention to what is here and now.
I will be here with you. Creating and tending this sanctuary. Offering the daily questions. Reading and receiving your words. Writing alongside you.
Monday through Friday, you’ll receive an invitation — a question, a musing, a breadcrumb trail — through which we write the intimate particulars of real life, in real time. These are not prompts meant to take you somewhere specific. They are doorways into listening. They open toward your days, your interior life, your questions, sensations, and ordinary noticings. Life being life, asking for attention. Writing to tend knowing. Writing to name what is here. Writing as care.
WRITING OUR WAY TO ATTENTION — TEN THINGS AT A TIME
Each weekday, we write ten things. Or two. Or seven. This is for you.
Ten words. Ten sentences. Ten pages. A list of attention. Nothing too small or unimportant. You may time it or not. The practice is meant to be doable, sustaining, a way of keeping a writing rhythm that feels possible.
We are here to listen.
CONNECT
You’re invited to write and share within the Writing Sanctuary collective. A private Mighty Networks space is available for those who want to offer their writing, witness others, and receive words of care along the way.
This sanctuary is offered in the spirit of collective care. I trust people to offer what feels right, with an understanding that it takes time, attention, and real labor to craft and hold spaces like this.
PAY WHAT FEELS RIGHT
$88 -Thank you so much for supporting this and making it possible for everyone
$44 - Let's write together and make magic
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