The Resiliency Circle: May reminder & details

We're gathering this Wednesday, May 21st, at 5:15pm PST.

Dear friends, readers, allies, & neurodivergent peers,

The Resiliency Circle is where paid readers of For the Birds gather in order to write, reflect, and nurture our creativity. A gentle monthly opportunity, it’s low-stakes, low-commitment, and high reward.

And it’s happening again this Wednesday, May 21st, at 5:15pm PST / 8:15pm EST.

Earlier this year, a reader and colleague made a generous comment about the film photos I incorporate into most of my newsletters. “No, really,” she insisted when I tried to move past the compliment. “You’ve got a great eye. You should teach a workshop about this.”

Friends: This month’s gathering is decidedly not a workshop, as I have no idea what I’m doing, or how I’m doing it, when I incorporate my photographs into my newsletter. But this is precisely the kind of stuff I want us to be curious about together: As writers, how do we relate to and rely on imagery?

From inspiration to publication, let’s get curious about the different ways that visual experiences weave into our written ones.

The details:

• May 21st at 5:15pm PST

• 90 minutes

• We’ll spend the first half(-ish) writing in response to a variety of images I’ll be displaying on the screen. This will function like a parallel writing session.

• After writing, we’ll transition into community reflections, shares, & conversation. Let’s talk about what we know, what we wish we knew, and what we might be discovering in real time.

Some playful questions to get you started:

• What image (photograph, painting, dream, memory, screenshot) has stayed with you lately? Is it asking to be written about?

• When has an image helped you understand something that words could not?

• How do you incorporate images into and/or alongside your words?

• Think of a piece of visual art (any medium) that’s moved you. If your writing sat beside it in a gallery, what would their relationship be?

Zoom link & RSVP: