https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog daily 0.75 2026-03-24 https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/the-sky-is-falling monthly 0.5 2026-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/ed1cc2ab-78da-439b-9b9d-cb30c3e9d253/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - “The Sky is Falling” Reflections on Troubled Times and Political Poetry As with all human endeavors, it was not at its inception nor thereafter perfectly realized, but it has until recently been a work in progress, a source of inspiration and a focus for repeated striving. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/82e32a46-efca-4f11-90c4-ec1e5f0d39c6/Write+With+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - “The Sky is Falling” Reflections on Troubled Times and Political Poetry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/1dce4782-3b7d-4cd1-a3fc-11715cb40b99/Write+With+Community+SouthCoast.png Blog and Highlights - “The Sky is Falling” Reflections on Troubled Times and Political Poetry courtesy of Mark Bryan https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/my-reflections-on-the-blizzard-of-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/2c325999-7fd1-4d1c-8012-b158204e56b2/IMG_7806+2.jpeg Blog and Highlights - Blizzard of 2026 Part 2! - When we attempted to look outside in the morning, we could see nothing. The windows were completely covered with a thick layer of frost that made us feel like we were inside an igloo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/ac0091fa-f435-4735-bbc8-86e56f6da6ad/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.JPG Blog and Highlights - Blizzard of 2026 Part 2! It took my son all day to clear the driveway, walks, and front steps; but each time the plow passed, it left a mountain of snow blocking the areas he had just shoveled. https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/blizzard-mania monthly 0.5 2026-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/a5fc02e9-5377-4ef8-9c7b-a9d1874b4cf7/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.JPG Blog and Highlights - Blizzard Mania - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/1773226221408-VXINFJEY21EML1Z8ZHU4/IMG_7831.JPG Blog and Highlights - Blizzard Mania https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/1773226232160-O78WV3T121CTNUKY27K0/IMG_7841.jpg Blog and Highlights - Blizzard Mania https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/595053d0-3168-4e25-ab30-b3a6ccfe41ed/2603+Cat-Fire.jpeg Blog and Highlights - Blizzard Mania - We recently welcomed an East Boston street cat into our home who enjoys domestic life. The two of us watched the fireplace flicker and the landscape disappear. https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/farmcoast-conversation-series monthly 0.5 2026-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/734716ef-f7c2-43f1-aff9-91129f232447/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.JPG Blog and Highlights - FarmCoast Conversation Series With facilitators and participants from the worlds of writing, farming, environmental science, and more, the series integrates local viewpoints, encourages community participation, and offers the deep, reflective time we all need to share and meditate on our natural world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/ea9b29ab-24b2-4ec9-928a-481b7956f9c3/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - FarmCoast Conversation Series In Landmarks, Macfarlane collects a treasure trove of local words that lovingly describe the environment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/77776005-97a6-4b86-8fbe-d3ef69c9b0d8/Write+With+Community Blog and Highlights - FarmCoast Conversation Series - Make it stand out To that end, the first session, facilitated by Midori Evans, Lisa Chan, and Lorna Miles in absentia, began by asking: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/3b2ad8ce-c1aa-4add-ad36-51895cad7aaf/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - FarmCoast Conversation Series - Make it stand out Everyone was eager to share ideas and stories about the landmarks that are meaningful to us – https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/837d20b0-83b4-46fc-b4b2-07cd75c72836/IMG_7504.JPG Blog and Highlights - FarmCoast Conversation Series More than the places, though, is the emotion. Our essence and our sense of selves get woven into these places. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/71f20f72-1137-4109-a8ef-98c8c91ff4dd/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.JPG Blog and Highlights - FarmCoast Conversation Series As we awaited inspiration and talked about our childhoods full of snow, Jennie Kristel of Journey Works and Michael Watson welcomed us into a rich conversation about belonging. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/9f94104f-5470-4fcb-b3ae-769b01d3a915/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - FarmCoast Conversation Series When we responded to a question about where we were connected when we were seven or eight, all sorts of stories about childhood began to emerge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/dc1461ae-34c3-4aa7-a67e-ee1514baf02c/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.JPG Blog and Highlights - FarmCoast Conversation Series As we headed off to hunker down and await the snow, Jennie read a quote from Henri Nouwen, the well-known author who lived at L’Arche Daybreak, a community for people with intellectual disabilities. “The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/c68920e6-c17a-41b6-b7c5-838194133433/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.JPG Blog and Highlights - FarmCoast Conversation Series - Make it stand out Main Rd., Westport Feb. 24, 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/5c23e78e-7742-42b9-9614-0cd53930bd0f/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - FarmCoast Conversation Series a writer and photographer and former commercial fisherman, graciously contributed his poem, Twilight on the Boat to our agenda, read by Krista Allen. It’s part of a larger collection of fishing poetry entitled “Mending Holes,” published by MoonPath. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/54550fcc-fef8-4b3a-818c-b5e8039307b3/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.JPG Blog and Highlights - FarmCoast Conversation Series - Make it stand out She then presented: “My question to you today, especially thinking about how our bodies are made of water, is how does our bodily presence interact with these transitory forms of water?” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/9dda0d81-2b61-43bc-9435-216216ec5d14/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.JPG Blog and Highlights - FarmCoast Conversation Series We got to break off into groups and join with our finger puppet friends (their reputation precedes them!) to go write. Thanks for the amazing sea and river prompts, Krista! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/66222185-1935-4bfb-bb07-fad8cfc33147/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - FarmCoast Conversation Series But this “ecological cornucopia” had its own order, a network of relationships that fostered long-term sustainability. (“Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War” by Lisa Brooks) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/b6522de2-d29e-4b22-8fc1-5768180dfae1/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpeg Blog and Highlights - FarmCoast Conversation Series They can remind us and help us feel at home – no matter the weather! We look forward to continuing these conversations. https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/the-mermaid-report monthly 0.5 2026-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/fcfb4e2c-df4f-493e-901e-4a5dc47bdb3a/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - The Mermaid Report There is even a native Passamaquoddy tale in Maine of two girls transformed into mermaids, referred to as Ne Hwas, who later interacted with the community. Closer to home, a Marshfield, Massachusetts resident and her dog supposedly spotted a mermaid repeatedly at Brant Rock in 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/07a90080-bc9b-4ab9-ad27-dcb2ab3bdae9/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.png Blog and Highlights - The Mermaid Report The book I’d chosen was The Mermaid of Black Conch, by Monique Roffey. It differs from traditional mermaid stories in a variety of ways. But I don’t want to spoil the story should you choose to read it (just power through the first uncomfortable Hemenway-esque forty pages). Of particular note is the author’s admirable decision to use a combination of native patois, journal entries, and poetry to isolate the characters’ voices within the narrative. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/205a0f85-7393-4d83-ac25-dcd446906593/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - The Mermaid Report I’m a huge fan of mermaid fiction. I consider nautical literature in general a genre unto itself, with most of the books in our living room bookcase dedicated to all things aquatic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/69623b19-a480-4b48-a957-dfae1b8518ca/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - The Mermaid Report The Mermazons and other open water swim groups meet year round. Regardless of a group’s location–coastal vs inland–participants tend to favor the early morning, before beachgoers descend, before work requirements begin, before scorching sunlight necessitates liberal use of sunscreen. It often becomes a daily ritual for both exercise and mental health. It’s almost as if a portion of humanity is trying to return to our pelagic origins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/1c9600c4-80b9-49c1-9913-b0cba06ab4d3/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - The Mermaid Report - How did mermaid myths emerge? Sailors squinting towards the horizon have long reported a variety of unidentifiable sea creatures, many of whom they’ve dubbed mermaids. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/caff7de8-d533-43c3-a104-865ac017dd3a/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - The Mermaid Report - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/f1724401-4e22-4c0a-87a9-0bd5d248f641/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - The Mermaid Report While bodyboarding, swim fins, snorkels, and scuba gear are all relatively new inventions, people have been diving into the ocean since our distant relatives first crawled onto dry land. For as long as stories have been shared, myths about mermaids and their kin have captivated imaginations. The most well-known mermaid tale, The Little Mermaid, was not invented by Disney, but was originally a short story first published in 1837 by Hans Christian Andersen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/987f5145-a549-44a6-9815-52037486834c/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - The Mermaid Report Save the date for the next installment of the Walking Book Club. We will meet at 2pm on May 3rd at Westport Woods Conservation Park to discuss Get The Picture, by Bianca Bosker. Hope to see you there! https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/the-mermazons-of-sakonnet monthly 0.5 2026-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/c87d83ea-af5e-445f-a85a-4f5f9bb448d6/IMG_8671.jpeg Blog and Highlights - The Mermazons of Sakonnet - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/9b502974-d69c-4cb4-a01e-60a0799c95b0/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - The Mermazons of Sakonnet I always notice your White Caps across the dark green Sea, Winter Fern, yesterday’s standstill— Snow—Rain—Ferocity. At Sakonnet we make our meet, and don Neoprene ware; down ramp we walk, a shivering, wading—into the Mere, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/ff2484c8-abe7-4c16-a79e-a91ef6267028/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - The Mermazons of Sakonnet We swim in your Frigid Beauty, our group—Six Strong—abide, as a Spotter watches from shore— the Freeze—Ice Floes—the Tide, And regardless of the Season, we Brave bone-chilling Cold; minutes and moments flow onward— Alive—Energized—Bold. https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/brigid-goddess-of-poetry-smithcraft monthly 0.5 2026-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/22f4131c-0064-48e2-8ada-03b8e2c8c627/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.JPG Blog and Highlights - Brigid: Goddess of Poetry & Smithcraft Ancient Ireland had a rich pantheon of gods and goddesses, creation myths, and folklore. One of the principal goddesses of the pantheon is Brigid. She is the patron goddess of poetry, healing and smithcraft, caring and feeding the fires that keep our world thriving. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/39fcea78-9baf-4bd6-a6ba-09eb76574870/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.JPG Blog and Highlights - Brigid: Goddess of Poetry & Smithcraft Depending on which book you consult, devotees of the goddess Brigid celebrate her feast day on February 1st or 2nd - a fire festival called Imbolc. Astrologically, Imbolc marks the midway point between the Winter Solstice and the upcoming spring equinox. It’s a moment to reflect on all you have survived in the darker months, and to celebrate the return of the light and warmth. We should savor these moments to huddle around our fires (or candles) and indulge in the comfort. But remember - Brigid has three aspects. Take a moment to warm yourself and heal your heart. Then we must get back to the work that feeds the fire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/2a3ca84c-a0cd-42e1-9980-bb7000a1ded2/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Brigid: Goddess of Poetry & Smithcraft At the time of writing in New England, there’s piles of snow - with more expected in the coming weeks. Winter is long and often brutally cold. The first week of February feels about as far away from Spring as Christmas does, quite frankly. But you can see small changes - in the way your house plants start to bud new leaves, in the sun peeking out for just a little bit longer every day. Soon enough the first of the daffodils will be poking up through the earth; birds will be busy with nesting. Good things are on the way. https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/cartophile monthly 0.5 2026-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/f2755fad-ecdc-4d81-b928-330effbeb942/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Cartophile On her deathbed this past summer, I read to her a marathon performance from cover to cover. Hopefully, she could visually frolic in that carefree landscape one last time, and finally hear how the tale ended, if she’d never finished reading it on her own. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/b174db7e-3f49-4e4b-b17d-55c8ccb23f94/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Cartophile - I can think of many other stories that I was drawn to because of a map, or where the shape of the land took on a character of significance all its own. Middle Earth from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings leaps to mind, along with Dante Alighieri’s map of hell in the Inferno, Thomas More’s map of Utopia, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s legendary Treasure Island. Non-fiction maps also inform many writers’ craft, such as Henry David Thoreau’s detailed measurements of Walden Pond in Walden, histories that focus on explorers’ routes, like that of Meriwether Lewis and Willam Clark or Ferdinand Magellan, or road trip novels like John Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/62457e78-efed-414d-81ad-985b76ab4ed7/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Cartophile - I even found a Russian map of where I grew up in New York, chaotically stacked beneath a hanging quilt of a map of southeastern Rhode Island. Middleton is passionate about creating maps that complement local historical narratives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/10ec609b-658f-4a4f-a2e3-4edc8dabef57/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Cartophile https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/804f6a83-0b68-4140-a1ac-b6b8b0d738c4/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Cartophile - Maps inspire writing, and vice versa. The same Russian history teacher from high school, Jonathan Meisel, also ran a political role-playing game for students which he titled “Simulations.” He generated fictional country titles, the names of which I purloined to write my second-ever piece of childhood fan fiction (the first was about my cat, copying the format of writing from an animal’s perspective, an impactful method I still use to this day). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/53d323c7-2ee4-43ae-9fc0-216dcab584a7/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Cartophile I used the country titles to enrich my own map illustration, which in turn inspired the (unfinished) fantasy novel. Unearthing that hand-drawn map while moving to Westport four years ago has prompted a niggling desire to go back and rewrite and complete that book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/22b54f07-87a2-4d3e-992a-9263863210eb/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Cartophile - 1871 Westport map from wpthistory.org Many writers create an outline before they jump into writing a story. An outline is a written or mental map of where the story might take its readers. Historical maps can be viewed as an outline of where real stories took place in our community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/a9270faa-0e74-41fc-958f-8a8573972e94/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Cartophile While reading the daily accounts of life in Westport in the 1800s is interesting, I found that Smith’s accompanying map of his father-in-law’s fruit orchard better excited my understanding of a piece of land that I presently view from my bedroom window. https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/author-events-and-reading-your-work-at-the-rotch-jones-duff-house monthly 0.5 2026-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/1768271361938-RCSDG0UXN3TLH77OZZYZ/8B0A1118.JPG Blog and Highlights - Author Events and Reading Your Work at the Rotch-Jones-Duff House - Make it stand out With this experience still fresh in my mind, I look back to a very different type of reading I took part in. On July 18th, the writers of the anthology, Waterscapes, were able to read their works behind the Rotch-Jones-Duff House (RJD), in New Bedford. There was a tent, and the famed rose gardens were surrounding us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/1768271403436-I9S7E1S7ZR3D9U69J3RB/8B0A1117.JPG Blog and Highlights - Author Events and Reading Your Work at the Rotch-Jones-Duff House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/1768271436106-VWYTR45H0MWA7A1X4RPF/8B0A1121.JPG Blog and Highlights - Author Events and Reading Your Work at the Rotch-Jones-Duff House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/1768275046917-S6LVJT8DCZVDJRHII41A/8B0A1116.JPG Blog and Highlights - Author Events and Reading Your Work at the Rotch-Jones-Duff House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/1768275125657-57LUGVM6A7PPK0BKVRX8/8B0A1119.JPG Blog and Highlights - Author Events and Reading Your Work at the Rotch-Jones-Duff House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/6aaf0ac9-d5a2-466c-afaf-595199aefc05/Mark.png Blog and Highlights - Author Events and Reading Your Work at the Rotch-Jones-Duff House “The wavetops curl and fall as they race to the awaiting shoreline," read Mark Collins, the opening reader, of his piece, “Seaside Experiences on the Wheel of the Year.” His reading cadence was gentle yet as persistent as the ocean waves themselves, lending a calmness to what was a dramatic jumble of words and image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/1009fe86-e151-4ffa-b206-60c1636fb578/eve3.png Blog and Highlights - Author Events and Reading Your Work at the Rotch-Jones-Duff House Eve Lesses’ “Glide” was given extra lift from her comments about the importance of the Westport Writers Group to her process. She didn’t belabor or go into more detail, but this washed over me in a way that left me wanting to hear much more about this experience and how it informed her composing of this lush story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/8bb2df14-29d5-4174-ba90-9251d7371f01/Deb.png Blog and Highlights - Author Events and Reading Your Work at the Rotch-Jones-Duff House “And then there was the brook, our favorite playground of all,” read Deb Coderre from her piece, “In The Brook,” a line that captures such a human, shared experience that’s hopefully universal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/f4fb259b-4182-4ea0-b3ce-707d17576ca8/Paul.png Blog and Highlights - Author Events and Reading Your Work at the Rotch-Jones-Duff House Paul Mercier’s delivery of “Skipping Stones” was given an unexpected edge as he was reading from a single piece of 8.5 x 11 paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/d401a6f2-961d-444c-808e-0c86f852455b/Krista.png Blog and Highlights - Author Events and Reading Your Work at the Rotch-Jones-Duff House I’ve also heard Krista Allen’s “Hold Down” before, but unlike any of the other pieces, this poem is about near drowning. What’s amazing about it is that Krista is a seasoned surfer who knows the ocean well. While I’ve been in this same situation of being caught under a wave, my experience was much different than Krista’s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/3e9c4d5b-c1bf-44d8-8075-25a911fc7eec/Jim.png Blog and Highlights - Author Events and Reading Your Work at the Rotch-Jones-Duff House And then there’s Jim, emcee at all the readings. He doesn’t always read his poetry, but this time, he did. James Cronin is his full name. He was once a judge. His poem, “The Water’s Edge,” has never made me shed a tear, but upon the first listening, Jim’s words seized in me something very deep that could only be accessed if by beauty amid refuge, amid safety. Jim starts by telling us about a place he was introduced to by a friend, a place that lay undiscovered by Jim in his 50 years of living in Westport. It was a cow path along the west branch of the river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/1768480808435-A1MHJ77AGNO3QP41LWQO/8B0A1126.JPG Blog and Highlights - Author Events and Reading Your Work at the Rotch-Jones-Duff House - Jim methodically renders the origins of the path, the herding dogs, the salt marsh plants, and then, the low-hanging sun of winter that allows Jim to foreshadow in a way that made people quietly gasp. “This scene and its pledge of ebb and flow is at risk, and my own run faces the implacable subsidence of life.” In what feels like the comfort of history and how things never change, Jim, in the twilight of his own time here, weaves in the environmental crisis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/1768274176597-AB8ESWKIZD25RQ2H0MNU/8B0A1312.JPG Blog and Highlights - Author Events and Reading Your Work at the Rotch-Jones-Duff House - This is the power of the poet, of the writer, of the place, and of the reading. To catch us off guard, to bring to life the print. Anxiety or not, medium be damned—live streaming, in a rose garden—readings are essential. They allow a sensual experience of the text, and this is profound. And for those who are able to catch the clues, who are able to attend to the entirety of the experience, they are always worth it. https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/the-art-of-writhing-out-an-ekphrastic-poem monthly 0.5 2026-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/35f67556-1463-4763-9afe-969f3a378e46/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - The Art of “Writhing” out an Ekphrastic Poem - Achilles Shield Then first he form'd the immense and solid shield; Rich various artifice emblazed the field; Its utmost verge a threefold circle bound….Homer: Iliad https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/524bcd49-082b-4449-bc04-5280c217a34d/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - The Art of “Writhing” out an Ekphrastic Poem - Then comes the research. This is actually fun. 90% of what I learn I probably won’t use directly. But it begins to translate the image into thoughts and thoughts into phrases, words. And here the invention begins, tapping into personal experience and feeling. Woman Reading: sculpture by Mark Wholey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/b2094922-183c-4a1c-ab79-4551dff84716/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.png Blog and Highlights - The Art of “Writhing” out an Ekphrastic Poem - The poet’s work is a work of “art” in itself. Seeing Architectural #1 in person gives me my first spark…that the “house” is really one façade with a back and a front. And each façade is quite different: the “front” being an example of classical architecture and the backside harder to pin down, but with geometric symbols on the wall and a strange “space” inside, minimally delineated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/d00efce4-400a-4d06-b56b-ead5cf27d9a7/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - The Art of “Writhing” out an Ekphrastic Poem - Ultimately, I get lost in thinking too much. And the reference to my grandmother I find too “easy” for my liking. But again, I don’t regret any of the time. It leads me to knowing I need a “voice” that is more irreverent and playful. Janus, the two-faced Greek God https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/d5f23203-75af-4f72-adf3-ac3cdd5d8891/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpeg Blog and Highlights - The Art of “Writhing” out an Ekphrastic Poem - Make it stand out Charles H. Cole Lyons Building, Lexington https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/new-englands-four-seasons-non-dual-experiences monthly 0.5 2026-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/2026c475-5fb5-4ee6-8dba-5a7fe145fb2b/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.png Blog and Highlights - New England's Four Seasons & Non-Dual Experiences - New England as Teacher On a physical level, living in New England offers us a unique opportunity to experience extremes on the scale of duality. Through the changing of seasons, freezing cold hands in winter are contrasted by a sunburned face in summer—yet the physical feeling is indeed quite similar. We still have the same sun, ocean, sand dunes, and woods to walk in year-round. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/e1591033-4756-472c-8ed6-7af9aee412fa/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - New England's Four Seasons & Non-Dual Experiences - The Equinoxes: Anchors of Unity The spring equinox and fall equinox both feature the same amount of daylight, although fall is warmer due to Earth's thermal lag. This connection unifies the annual cycle of time, reminding us that apparent opposites share a common center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/4715da85-d2cb-4b3b-845a-fc5df14578d2/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - New England's Four Seasons & Non-Dual Experiences - Summer: Fullness Emotionally, summer comes with incredible highs; just walking in the warm air brings a feeling of gratitude for the joyous warmth our earth mother provides. Mowing a lawn gives us needed exercise, time in the outdoor sun, and a feeling of accomplishment as we create greenscapes at our homes. Yet summer's heat can be overwhelming, which makes the first fall breezes feel welcome indeed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/03ecf416-1678-4a13-a07b-a914fd685072/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - New England's Four Seasons & Non-Dual Experiences - Make it stand out While raking leaves could be considered somber—the collecting of brown, decaying leaves that were once a vibrant green—these leaves become a shielding blanket to insects and critters in winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/0932e7da-1e8a-441a-82e5-68dcb3233aa8/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - New England's Four Seasons & Non-Dual Experiences - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/aninterviewwithmidorievans monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/31b1a77e-95fa-4273-94a0-946b2a78e4b4/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - An Interview with Midori Evans - Krista: As the founder of the Westport Writers Group and a small business owner, you’re obviously inherently a creative person. Even your name, Midori, helps you stand out! Have you always fashioned your identity around your artistic endeavors? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/8e898c46-4df1-4f8c-b66f-09ec1ec33beb/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - An Interview with Midori Evans - Midori: I’ve definitely always been creative and am certainly in the artistic part of my family! So that you understand that reference: there are seven children in my family of origin; the older four siblings work in the fields of law, banking, and public policy. My two younger sisters and I are the ones working as artists - Katherine as a trumpeter and singer in Vancouver, Canada, Laura, a fine art painter who lives in New York City, and me with my various creative pursuits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/daa8dbdc-639a-4d93-abdc-03c3b50e711f/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.webp Blog and Highlights - An Interview with Midori Evans - I spent many years running Fantastic Tutor and I still do tutoring part-time. It’s also a creative endeavor in its own way as I help awaken the joy of learning in students and expose them to enriching experiences. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/c964a20a-fa66-4ea5-b9d0-6b170b3c70cf/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - An Interview with Midori Evans - Midori: So many other projects, it’s almost hard to think about! The most recent project has been the publication of our two local anthologies: The Landscape About Us published in spring 2024 and Waterscapes published in spring 2025. Each respectively had twenty-five and thirty writers and photographers’ contributions from around the South Coast. We wanted to capture our love of where we live through our work; we shared them through readings at the Westport Library, the Westport River Watershed Alliance, Allen’s Neck Quaker Meeting, the Rotch Duff Jones house in New Bedford, as well as launching them both with celebratory readings at Davoll’s Bookstore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/1a4bc5c4-e300-4514-afe2-d1a43cf6b0a5/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.png Blog and Highlights - An Interview with Midori Evans - In addition, Westport Writers Group members will be participating in an upcoming FarmCoast Conversation Series which explores “What is Our Relationship to Land and Water” at the Westport Grange in January and February. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/d97df6c1-0bb5-42bb-83d9-3fe3d9c0cfe7/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - An Interview with Midori Evans - Those gallery pieces were not separate creations, nor exhibited separately. The writers and photographers interacted with each other, talked about where they had done their work, and reflected ideas as varied as creative process, land meaning and use, and the anthropomorphization of nature. The resulting works held the seeds of artistic diversity. I contributed as well as both a photographer and writer. I found myself writing unique pieces I loved and visualizing angles and photographic approaches I had not seen in my mind’s eye before. By the third year of our festival of community, creativity, and art, we had artists, writers, farmers, students, and more all coming together to showcase the myriad ways that we are inspired by our natural environment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/c96ba362-d2ae-4c19-93f1-9b0a89beac30/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.png Blog and Highlights - An Interview with Midori Evans Another cross-pollination project I’ve been running is Artists Share! in New Bedford, a monthly gathering ongoing now since 2020. As artists of all types, we gather to explore our artistic journeys and help each other with a mixture of support, inspiration, and critique. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/17cc29c3-78b4-4b52-85ec-3a317db91e54/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.png Blog and Highlights - An Interview with Midori Evans - From quilts that map the city of New Bedford to seaweed art, the exhibition showcased wonderfully unique pairings. As one visitor said, “it was a full sensory journey through creativity and nature. Each collaboration showed us that when artists work together, they create new ways of seeing and understanding our environment.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/e9b4d87a-c92f-4188-b265-633c02367d38/Scrim+veil%E2%80%94Black+rectangle%E2%80%94Natural+light%2C+Whitney+Museum+of+American+Art%2C+New+York%2C Blog and Highlights - An Interview with Midori Evans - Krista: Do you have a favorite author? Tell me about an author’s work that has inspired you. Midori: I love the work of Natalie Goldberg. And of UK nature writer Robert MacFarlane. And then a book I recommended we read in my book club, Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Lawrence Weschler, is a tour de force. In it, Lawrence recounts the artistic journey of Robert Irwin as he explores space, light, and meaning. It’s absolutely fascinating. Scrim veil—Black rectangle—Natural light, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/e226ec5a-ba3a-49cb-bcf7-d0d66d720a6f/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.png Blog and Highlights - An Interview with Midori Evans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/06cbc9ac-8546-4f29-a52a-1bab3c325baf/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.png Blog and Highlights - An Interview with Midori Evans - Midori: We love being a place where writers of any level and identity come together to write. We’re moving to the North Dartmouth library to be more geographically accessible to people. Beyond that, the group is really about creating a space where people can explore their writing, their belief in themselves as writers, and their inner writing voices. None of that will be changing. What I hope for its purpose is to remain true to its mission to be open to all while maintaining a safe space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/33a50894-7123-465b-91ab-86caef4e57e0/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - An Interview with Midori Evans - Krista: Wow, Midori, thank you for taking the time to elaborate on your creative journey. It’s been delightful participating and assisting in the writing groups, as well as your many local workshops and other events. I’m excited for some of your upcoming projects! I’m also off to pick up a copy of one of May Sarton’s works, since reading is one of the best ways for us writers to find inspiration. https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/travelswithgracieone monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/5c47e42c-c4e7-4c9c-801d-a9220218fdf0/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Travels with Gracie: The Day Steve Inskeep* Told My Story - Steve Inskeep was waxing away on something or other on NPR. I hit Route 3 to Boston where the traffic slows to a standstill then a stop. Pause Steve, call Angell. Better to plead innocent of impending tardiness than ask forgiveness for actual lateness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/4029cf81-727b-43f6-a349-23b9bf1bf6d3/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Travels with Gracie: The Day Steve Inskeep* Told My Story - All those years I worked at the Holocaust Museum in DC, I was obsessed with ideas and technologies to help other people find their histories, their families and their relatives. It was so important to them. It never once occurred to me to apply this same desire for closure to myself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/374f4072-b16b-4c80-b944-9d990fcd19a8/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Travels with Gracie: The Day Steve Inskeep* Told My Story - My father bought a pipe organ and installed it in the living room. No TV. There were fables of horses in the attic above the garage. My older brother’s boundless creativity, artistic talents, love for cars, perfect pitch, and paralyzing dyslexia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/8d3c718a-c1c9-41c3-ba67-20fc891888f1/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Travels with Gracie: The Day Steve Inskeep* Told My Story - After Gracie’s successful exam at Angell, I opened all the windows in my car and headed from Jamaica Plain to Dorchester. Steve’s story had ended, but mine was still streaming in my head. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/d9663b5f-a810-422d-a435-1aeda8a2814f/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Travels with Gracie: The Day Steve Inskeep* Told My Story - After a few missed turns, I drove down Brook Rd, got lost on Reedsdale and finally found myself on Vinewood, heading to the cul-de-sac. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/74745edc-619d-4d3a-9da4-e26c89e5ff7e/smartphone-5552242_1280.jpg Blog and Highlights - Travels with Gracie: The Day Steve Inskeep* Told My Story - I stopped to ask -- “can I take a picture?” “Of course,” they respond, exchanging mildly cautious looks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/3f9e6266-9258-476f-b786-4ee20e77b34c/IMG_4939.jpg Blog and Highlights - Travels with Gracie: The Day Steve Inskeep* Told My Story - Make it stand out At 18, the seashore became my home. https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/laurenwolkmap monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/5815ccd4-dfce-4e57-9c04-da5fbcb4443c/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Lauren Wolk's "Writing Without a Map" - Through the heavy mist, warm lights twinkle at the Marion Music Hall. Sheltered under the brick archway, you shake off the damp and enter the auditorium with its warm, wood floors, soaring ceilings and large arched windows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/89f7d19d-ddfd-4f21-a758-474ce2723519/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Lauren Wolk's "Writing Without a Map" - “When Lauren said she would like to talk about her writing process, I realized it was an opportunity to support our collection,” Sippican Historical Society Executive Director Alanna Nelson said in her introduction. “Our archives hold oral histories, memoirs and video interviews, mainly from the last 50 years. Perhaps Lauren will inspire you to tell a Marion story this winter and share it with our archives.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/3875a361-eec8-43c7-8419-4689b792f444/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.png Blog and Highlights - Lauren Wolk's "Writing Without a Map" - While other writers may meticulously outline or create planning documents, she allows herself to be guided by intuition, memory, setting, and stories (historical or imagined), tempered by time. A large screen on the stage behind Lauren shines with interesting quotes, photos, and illustrations, but you could easily just close your eyes, allowing her rich voice and thoughtful words to wash across your auricles. https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/southcoastanditswriters monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/6f3291fd-6c92-4ea1-9c61-b65c9cd89457/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.png Blog and Highlights - Editing My Friend’s Poems - That first tiny booklet was thirteen pages, staple-bound, and I created the cover art with a rubber stamp from Michael’s and a metallic gold Sharpie. The pages dried all over the living room of my tiny apartment just upstairs from the gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/8e16012c-73b6-4dc7-a1de-0e85f0e50bd4/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.JPG Blog and Highlights - Editing My Friend’s Poems It feels like our own holiday tradition, the continuation of a legacy of making art happen in New Bedford. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/a17a958b-bac9-445b-8d2b-fe84c8437fd9/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.png Blog and Highlights - Editing My Friend’s Poems - A writer’s dream often includes the big book deal or the accolades from impressive foundations and institutions. I think deep down we all want that for our art. But it’s my hope and ambition to make my friends, the artists of the Southcoast, feel that same sense of pride and accomplishment right here at home. As I prepare our newest book, Tidings 2025, for publication I’m looking again at our stats: 120 pages, 75 different artists - and quite a few of the same names that appeared in Tidings 2018. The work continues for them. https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/writingthroughtheholidays monthly 0.5 2025-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/c1eccd0a-615a-4b76-9cfc-9df94f6aa1b8/write+with+community Blog and Highlights - Writing through the Holidays - Did you just get your writing practice going again? Or had a smooth-sailing few months this fall? Oh no, look out! Here come the holidays!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/f3b54d21-2564-47a7-a171-166ca1ce3f5c/houses-5762274_1280.jpg Blog and Highlights - Writing through the Holidays - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/db51a093-b6fc-4501-8b28-3dcd4213b40f/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Writing through the Holidays - Flexibility Step 1: Plans change. People change plans. Your calendar might not look the same the closer you get to the dance recital, the Christmas Eve service, the special meal you are preparing. Stretch your thinking…. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/73a758b3-376d-4b2d-ab09-985b4996b827/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Writing through the Holidays - Mind-set Changes Step 2: Really. It doesn’t matter how many or how few days you have available – there is wiggle room to write. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/f88a3845-0625-4095-95ac-cc82c5378bb7/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.png Blog and Highlights - Writing through the Holidays - Flexibility Step 2: Be gentle with yourself and your calendar. The point of the advance planning is to have carved room. But that carved time and space might land a bit differently than you intended. The worst thing you can do is self-sabotage the time you have to write because it didn’t follow the plan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/5018002c-1fce-4590-b827-fc3a044cf0bf/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Writing through the Holidays https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/5de01286-11d3-4ca5-bd56-2961b9ac13fb/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Writing through the Holidays - Mind-set Changes Step 3: Notice the monkey mind and the repetitive mind and the discouraging mind. All of those voices have a lot invested in you doing the same thing: not writing. Notice them and say “Thank you for being here, but I’m not interested in listening right now.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/d1981e38-775b-4046-a943-823d67e7f0bd/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Writing through the Holidays - Flexibility Step 3: Best laid plans and all that…. if you aren’t flexible with this, you’ll likely get discouraged and give up. Flexible means bending; it doesn’t mean surrender. So bend with the time …. Tuesday didn’t work but Wednesday is now available? The kids need a ride to the T station? Leave ten minutes early and drop them off early and sit in the car and write. You get my drift…. . https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/walking-book-club-autumn-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/ec50fedf-95ce-4eb7-9869-ee92a2c15348/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Walking Book Club: Autumn 2025 There is nothing so quintessentially New England as an autumn walk in the woods. With the waning fallen foliage crunching beneath our feet on a crisp blue sky afternoon, a few devoted readers ventured onto the two mile trail at the WLCT’s Dunham’s Brook Conservation Area. Over the boardwalk, up the hill, left at the steps, through the field, back into the woods. A pause at the fork to contemplate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/539189e0-a908-4c3d-814a-4ea1db01f34b/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Walking Book Club: Autumn 2025 “Where was the poet to tell me what to do when the door to the road less traveled was locked?” (p.168) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/c002b242-e067-4504-849d-6b74052bbcd8/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Walking Book Club: Autumn 2025 When we walk into an historic author’s house (or replica of, due to fire, not usually arson) such as Thoreau’s tiny cabin at Walden Pond, we may be looking for insight into the author’s mind. We try to imagine what enlightened him, just as we might try to envision the stories of those who worked the land of King Hill in centuries past. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/194c5052-5aa4-4fc9-85f6-019fdfe3bbf0/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Walking Book Club: Autumn 2025 The most famous landmarks in Westport, such as the memorials for Paul Cuffe and the Handy House, are both thankfully in close proximity to the fire department! I’d give this creative piece of fiction a solid 3 out of 5 stars. https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/landscapeaboutusatgooseberry monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/34324b5c-2a54-41b5-8eef-610c82612728/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.JPG Blog and Highlights - Walking Book Tour — Gooseberry and “The Landscape About Us”  - But when you’re in Brenda’s Paquachuck Inn on Westport Point being read the scene involving the character “Brenda” that is set in that Inn, by the author of In the Wake of the Willows, Fred Thurber, in his book which is a Westport-specific sequel to a story that so many of us grew up reading (and watching the cartoon version), The Wind In The Willows—I mean, wow. It’s almost too amazing to process! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/be62a358-608d-4185-9286-f0db73d2c74e/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Walking Book Tour — Gooseberry and “The Landscape About Us”  - Or when former mayor of New Bedford John Bullard Walked his memoir, Hometown, up and down Acushnet Avenue, or when we re-imagined the Weweantic River in Wareham as the Amazon River for local writer Holly Fitzgerald’s Ruthless River and Walked that, or had the president of the Nasketucket Bird Club bring his binoculars and weave in a bit of bird watching on our Walk of No Land To Light On by Yara Zgheib on West Island Town Beach in Fairhaven….. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/7f7fcc78-a496-4454-95a3-f8827118b5ff/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.JPG Blog and Highlights - Walking Book Tour — Gooseberry and “The Landscape About Us”  - On October 9th, the WBT walked their first anthology, The Landscape About Us, a collection of stories and poems about Westport, MA. This also included photographs. Local writer Midori Evans contributed and oversaw the creation of the book and was able to participate in the Walk, along with three other writers, of which I was one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/c0f3f371-235a-4d30-b5d9-7a4e52ae3046/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.JPG Blog and Highlights - Walking Book Tour — Gooseberry and “The Landscape About Us”  - Gooseberry Island quickly emerged as the perfect location for the walk, as Midori covered in the opening moments of the walk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/0b3d2a71-ebb3-4d79-b304-4d6c1cba61c8/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.png Blog and Highlights - Walking Book Tour — Gooseberry and “The Landscape About Us”  - “It happened during lockdown,” she explained. “I was driving to Gooseberry every day for a morning walk.” For an entire month she took photos during the one hour walk involving some part of the island. A woman who watched Midori walk down the Causeway, day after day, eventually let Midori park in her driveway. Long-story-short—Midori knows Gooseberry Island well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/0135b284-c1cb-46d3-9d98-a904479c20cd/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpeg Blog and Highlights - Walking Book Tour — Gooseberry and “The Landscape About Us”  - My story, “Westport Terroir and the Importance of Gravel,” was a little more site specific. After some discussion, a large rock outcrop, and really, to be more accurate—a small gathering of boulders with the largest one referred to as “Big Rock,” edging what was to be our first turn in the walk—ended up being the location of my reading. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/933af7f2-4548-4ece-b3c7-541f155fb659/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.JPG Blog and Highlights - Walking Book Tour — Gooseberry and “The Landscape About Us”  Our fourth reader and first to read was Lorna Miles. Her story, “Bearing Witness to BOH’T,” emerged as the easiest story to place, as it involved a shipwrecked boat on a beach. The consensus was that this would be a great way to start the walk, leaving us haunted by the easy-to-visualize carcass of a once-grand vessel wasting away on a beautiful beach, while we walked along a beautiful beach. This was also a politically-charged story that was so very thoughtful, it left us awash in an activated space of recollection of the years that have gone by and how much has changed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/9cac51b8-5ece-4c4c-882b-6dfd2be96129/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.JPG Blog and Highlights - Walking Book Tour — Gooseberry and “The Landscape About Us”  - Make it stand out The crowd at the Walking Book Tour, Gooseberry Island, Oct. 9, 2025 https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/creating-in-times-of-distress monthly 0.5 2025-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/98156901-f712-4f9a-b47c-27c607616ddc/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast Blog and Highlights - Creating in Times of Distress Fortunately, through perseverance and struggle, I have found ways to create even through the hardest of times. Every month I get closer to finishing my first novel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/180599e5-05ae-4c27-8355-4ecae65ed699/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast Blog and Highlights - Creating in Times of Distress Use your problems as inspiration. Imagine a piece of art that builds a better future or past or a very different now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/401bc211-9494-48ed-b27e-03caab50d0bd/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast Blog and Highlights - Creating in Times of Distress Tell those bad things exactly what we are made of. Call out the hypocrisy of the world, the evil, the lazy and apathetic. Show others that these things matter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/c019b315-74ad-4c87-bd60-82277426ec2f/Write+with+Community+SouthCoast.jpg Blog and Highlights - Creating in Times of Distress - But do a little. This is especially important if you are struggling to create and have big projects you want to finish. https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/stonewalls monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/8d8796fd-dc81-4848-8010-e1385045ab88/Creative+Catalysts+Midori+Creativity Blog and Highlights - Stone Walls https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/769e56f6-7052-4453-952a-8d5641195e21/Creative+Catalysts+Midori+Creativity Blog and Highlights - Stone Walls https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/19fdbd25-6278-4c3d-a85b-ebcd1eef5da2/Creative+Catalysts+Midori+Creativity Blog and Highlights - Stone Walls - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/land-water-and-spirit-reading-at-allens-neck-friends-meetinghouse monthly 0.5 2025-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/9590a04d-6332-432d-a67f-735dec3da551/Allens+Pond+Reading-365+%281%29.JPG Blog and Highlights - Land, Water, Spirit reading at Allen’s Neck Friends Meeting - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/3dbaa68c-4752-48e0-b6e2-487f08926f97/Final_FrontCover_Waterscapes.jpg Blog and Highlights - Land, Water, Spirit reading at Allen’s Neck Friends Meeting - James Cronin, the first of the writers to do a reading—and all the writers were reading their contributions to Waterscapes: A SouthCoast Anthology – unfortunately couldn’t make it. This means that while he wasn’t there to read his poem, “The Water’s Edge,” something I’ve been lucky enough to hear him recite before, I could read the actual poem, along with the photo he was assigned to be mindful of when composing because I had a copy of the anthology. And on that front, we were all tasked with providing an image of the South Coast water. For Jim, it was “Cow Path-3, Westport Point,” by Charles Eastman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/f563ba6a-cf3c-472b-9ebb-dc5c21f489bc/CowPath-3%2C%2BWestport%2BPoint.jpeg Blog and Highlights - Land, Water, Spirit reading at Allen’s Neck Friends Meeting “Now on a winter’s day, a lower sun / distinctly lights this bleak cradle of life. / The spongy path and my stiff steps foreshadow a fallen world where this scene and its pledge / of ebb and flow is at risk and my own run / faces the implacable subsidence of life.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/6b06cf42-55c6-4c33-b304-f0d94dfe1b58/Allen%27s+Neck+Clambake+cedarlightimages.com Blog and Highlights - Land, Water, Spirit reading at Allen’s Neck Friends Meeting - I so very much wish I could have known who in the room had been to the bakes, what they had to say about her story—if names were changed but everything else was the same-sorta-thing-vibes… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/463b0c84-abad-4f0c-8507-384248173fa7/He+Built+Tall+Ships+There.jpg Blog and Highlights - Land, Water, Spirit reading at Allen’s Neck Friends Meeting - Next up was my reading another Waterscapes story, “He Built Tall Ships There.” My backstory for this piece was that I was reading Truman Capote at the time I was composing what I thought was going to be something on Paul Cuffe’s shipyard, something you could see from Hixbridge Road. But like so much of what we writers write, the story started to turn into a different direction. A somewhat creepy element entered into the story, along with a complete departure from what was supposed to be more about building 128-ton brigs at the Head and how they’d be carried onshore at Hixbridge, and then eventually outfitted at the Point. This included bringing in two of my former professors who are best friends and love to argue, a wine tasting at Westport Rivers, and then an eventual visit to the Pacquachuck Inn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/94853b20-7b90-4dc4-a732-d2cb2499a770/Allen%27s+Neck+photo+by+Midori+Evans Blog and Highlights - Land, Water, Spirit reading at Allen’s Neck Friends Meeting - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/a-sailors-guide-to-south-coast-libraries monthly 0.5 2025-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/711c02e5-efde-4857-9509-ac7602cd3040/TaborBoySunset.jpeg Blog and Highlights - A Sailor’s Guide to South Coast Libraries - Take a short walk from the dock to these 5 South Coast libraries Tabor Boy, Buzzards Bay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/8400d94e-d42c-4cde-967b-18de2a75831c/MillicentLibrary25.jpeg Blog and Highlights - A Sailor’s Guide to South Coast Libraries - Millicent Library in Fairhaven - A magnificent structure gifted to the Town in memory of Henry Huttleston’s daughter, the Millicent Library is grand both inside and out (please note: fans substitute for air conditioning). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/9addeed6-9fa2-43f2-8123-98afa059b9a5/FR-Lib.jpg Blog and Highlights - A Sailor’s Guide to South Coast Libraries - Fall River Library - Opened in 1899 and beautifully renovated about 20 years ago, this library is truly worth the walk uphill! The art collection is so noteworthy that they have brochures to give yourself a self-guided tour. Brochures, Fall River Library https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/the-shrines-we-make monthly 0.5 2025-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/4b22b902-919a-4051-b56c-c954944dc5db/bunny-shrine+copy.jpg Blog and Highlights - The Shrines We Make - When reflecting on the spots of beauty that can be found here or there, I started to think of them as tiny shrines. On my porch steps, a white-washed stone bunny stands sentinel over a piece of weathered Redwood bark found when hiking along a California trail. Next to it lie some seashells gathered along Horseneck Beach in Westport. A few sprigs of lavender and sage from the garden also lend their homage to nature. A sun-weathered bronze fennel provides a backdrop. This is just one spot of captured beauty, but there are so many more shrines, here, there and everywhere if we pay attention. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/f71667a6-e682-4971-9668-64720c7ad6ff/ave-maria+copy.jpg Blog and Highlights - The Shrines We Make There are one hundred white-washed steps to reach the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Peace on São Miguel Island. Inside, the cool stones of the shrine offer protection from the blazing Azorean sun. On the altar, I found bouquets of fragrant white roses. Who climbed the hundred white-washed steps to place them there, I wondered? It is remarkable that there are still so many people who work to keep these holy spaces clean and inviting. They do it for the local people who dwell there as well as for the tourists who are just passing through. Their wish is for the visitor to sit on the wooden bench long enough to sense the spirit that resides in this simple place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/cfab3223-1234-4f79-9ea4-989f7327d494/monhegan-gavel-shrine+copy.jpg Blog and Highlights - The Shrines We Make Nearby, there is a gavel, handmade by a student whose name has been sadly forgotten. That wooden gavel became engraved with so many names over the years by students reenacting the trial scene of Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird. I can picture Spenser with his feet up on the desk, bubble gum cigar in mouth, pounding the judge’s gavel when the courtroom got too noisy. https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/walking-book-tour-life-and-death-of-the-salt-marsh monthly 0.5 2025-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/3f1758ab-ff82-46ea-91b3-49fc3b82df25/IMG_8949.jpg Blog and Highlights - Walking Book Tour: “Life and Death of the Salt Marsh” - Make it stand out Display table for book, along with literature from the Mattapoisett Land Trust https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/b9c15659-605b-4215-8591-6a90cf2efa74/IMG_0068.JPG Blog and Highlights - Walking Book Tour: “Life and Death of the Salt Marsh” - Make it stand out One of the buildings still standing from the Berkshire Hathaway campus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/0d5d47ea-48b5-4475-a9e9-aa93ab2a7d5c/Kristen+-+cropped.jpg Blog and Highlights - Walking Book Tour: “Life and Death of the Salt Marsh” - Make it stand out Vice President of the Mattapoisett Land Trust, Kristen McCormack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/a0db7522-4162-4836-89b2-4c59d2088226/Group+-+landscape+croppedjpg.jpg Blog and Highlights - Walking Book Tour: “Life and Death of the Salt Marsh” - Make it stand out Some of the group who turned out for the walk, ready to go mucking in the mud. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/2b89da84-d146-4658-87c5-2f6d5d1f7870/IMG_8955+2.JPG Blog and Highlights - Walking Book Tour: “Life and Death of the Salt Marsh” - Make it stand out A snapshot of the path, replete with vernal pools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/8a2f6d04-0e47-4f36-b06e-aefdffab69db/IMG_8972.jpg Blog and Highlights - Walking Book Tour: “Life and Death of the Salt Marsh” - Make it stand out Music stand in a salt marsh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/61a99543-c3e5-4b23-9cf6-ca04a9b87e51/IMG_8964.jpg Blog and Highlights - Walking Book Tour: “Life and Death of the Salt Marsh” - Make it stand out Marlissa Briggett, co-lead of the Tours, reading one of the passages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/d80b1a2d-d095-4de9-877c-207a0bae4426/Adam+playing+-+cropped+-.jpg Blog and Highlights - Walking Book Tour: “Life and Death of the Salt Marsh” - Make it stand out NBSO violinist Adam Jeffreys, playing a Bach fugue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/6f8b716c-2f9e-45e7-a0ad-ab4923d6170b/IMG_8989.JPG Blog and Highlights - Walking Book Tour: “Life and Death of the Salt Marsh” - Make it stand out Chocolate-covered marshmallows from Forno Bakery in Wareham. https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/and-now-today monthly 0.5 2025-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/f3c79cf9-353e-4825-9b3b-ba2b70005c7b/DavollsReading4.jpg Blog and Highlights - And now, today? - Make it stand out Davoll’s 2024 Launch Reading of The Landscape About Us https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/then-the-westport-writers-group monthly 0.5 2025-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/3704ed4b-4865-44b4-9831-32e2239ce996/notepad-7567746_1280.jpg Blog and Highlights - Then the Westport Writers Group… - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/westportwritestogether monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/6e9d8bae-523a-4ee2-b397-536f8664a8ba/WWT+Postcard.png Blog and Highlights - Next — Westport Writes Together - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/meditationsonlandscape monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/50214a53-54b3-45fb-93d7-f9f0412db745/shattuck+image.jpg Blog and Highlights - A text-imagery exhibition that over three years… - Make it stand out Meditations on Landscape 2023 at the Dedee Shattuck Gallery https://www.writewithcommunity.org/highlightsblog/thebeginningofwritewithcommunity monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6835c41df38fa77e2e244d49/ec00cb21-9cf4-47b0-8303-6c07cbf6fba4/Are+you+a+writer+who+lives+in+Westport.png Blog and Highlights - When did it all start? - Let’s get the writers and the photographers together! 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