Now: I am preparing for an Amherst Writers and Artists week of training. I am doing my homework – reading Writing Alone and With Others by Pat Schneider. And…I am spending an incredible amount of time thinking about writing. In this moment I realize that one of the reasons I am taking the risk of putting my work out there on a blog is because it is a way for me to let go. Posting my writing lets it stand on its own. It brings closure to the never-ending process or act of writing. And, in some incomprehensible but real way, allows me to move forward. Now is a healing place.