David Whyte | January 2022 Series: Start Close In

Shaping Our Lives to an Inner Simplicity: and an Outer Creative Life — Equal to the Challenge of Our Times

January 2, 16, 30 | 10 am PT | $60

First session is on Sunday, January 2nd at 10am Pacific Time. Register now to reserve your spot.

What's included:

• 3 75-minute seminars (livestream sessions delivered via Zoom)

• Preparatory and resource documents

• Tiny Daily Disciplines

Note: Session recordings and materials are accessible for three months after the live series ends, until May 1st, 2022.

If you cannot afford the registration price due to present hardship, please contact threesundaysdiscount@davidwhyte.com with a line of explanation for our heavily discounted rate.

Join David Whyte for what is becoming an annual ‘Start Close In’ Three Sundays in January, for a thoughtful and arresting entrance into this coming new year with a foundational emphasis on the act of ‘simplifying.’

There is a reason Marie Kondo is so popular in almost every corner of the developed world right now; we need to sweep and clear every corner of our minds as much as our homes and then we need to clean our world in the same way, all the while living in a time when we are constantly besieged by personal and planetary anxieties and difficulties.

Simplicity does not mean we refuse to engage in complex endeavours, nor turn away from the overwhelming nature of our present challenges. Simplicity does not mean naivety, nor putting our heads in the sand; but there is a necessity for powerful simple disciplines of the everyday, that begin with our breathing and our bodies, then move out through our simple movements; our speech, our homes and all the varied forms of our work, that can help us meet the world on better terms than any response that springs from anxiety.

Starting close in; means shaping a life where we can experience freedom, happiness and even joy in the midst of the difficulties that have accompanied every human life in every epoch of human history.

All of us can feel the tide beginning to turn and the road beginning to open again, however slowly, regarding our possible release from the confinements of the last two years. And yet all of us find ourselves still in the midst of the deep difficulties these trying two years have brought.

In the midst of overwhelming circumstance, no different from our own tumultuous times, human beings have always been called to a form of radical simplification, to returning to a true foundation from which they can step into a new life: to the making of new promises and the letting go of old ones. Our New Year’s resolutions are but magnified versions of this ancient taking on and giving up. The understanding has always been that we have to give away something precious; something we previously thought was fundamental. In this giving away we come to ground in our possibilities again, possibilities that were previously hidden by our too complicated view of what needed to be done, and who we needed to be in order to do it.

David Whyte | January 2022 Series: Start Close In

Shaping Our Lives to an Inner Simplicity: and an Outer Creative Life — Equal to the Challenge of Our Times

January 2, 16, 30 | 10 am PT | $60

First session is on Sunday, January 2nd at 10am Pacific Time. Register now to reserve your spot.

What's included:

• 3 75-minute seminars (livestream sessions delivered via Zoom)

• Preparatory and resource documents

• Tiny Daily Disciplines

Note: Session recordings and materials are accessible for three months after the live series ends, until May 1st, 2022.

If you cannot afford the registration price due to present hardship, please contact threesundaysdiscount@davidwhyte.com with a line of explanation for our heavily discounted rate.

Join David Whyte for what is becoming an annual ‘Start Close In’ Three Sundays in January, for a thoughtful and arresting entrance into this coming new year with a foundational emphasis on the act of ‘simplifying.’

There is a reason Marie Kondo is so popular in almost every corner of the developed world right now; we need to sweep and clear every corner of our minds as much as our homes and then we need to clean our world in the same way, all the while living in a time when we are constantly besieged by personal and planetary anxieties and difficulties.

Simplicity does not mean we refuse to engage in complex endeavours, nor turn away from the overwhelming nature of our present challenges. Simplicity does not mean naivety, nor putting our heads in the sand; but there is a necessity for powerful simple disciplines of the everyday, that begin with our breathing and our bodies, then move out through our simple movements; our speech, our homes and all the varied forms of our work, that can help us meet the world on better terms than any response that springs from anxiety.

Starting close in; means shaping a life where we can experience freedom, happiness and even joy in the midst of the difficulties that have accompanied every human life in every epoch of human history.

All of us can feel the tide beginning to turn and the road beginning to open again, however slowly, regarding our possible release from the confinements of the last two years. And yet all of us find ourselves still in the midst of the deep difficulties these trying two years have brought.

In the midst of overwhelming circumstance, no different from our own tumultuous times, human beings have always been called to a form of radical simplification, to returning to a true foundation from which they can step into a new life: to the making of new promises and the letting go of old ones. Our New Year’s resolutions are but magnified versions of this ancient taking on and giving up. The understanding has always been that we have to give away something precious; something we previously thought was fundamental. In this giving away we come to ground in our possibilities again, possibilities that were previously hidden by our too complicated view of what needed to be done, and who we needed to be in order to do it.

David Whyte | January 2022 Series: Start Close In

Shaping Our Lives to an Inner Simplicity: and an Outer Creative Life — Equal to the Challenge of Our Times

January 2, 16, 30 | 10 am PT | $60

First session is on Sunday, January 2nd at 10am Pacific Time. Register now to reserve your spot.

What's included:

• 3 75-minute seminars (livestream sessions delivered via Zoom)

• Preparatory and resource documents

• Tiny Daily Disciplines

Note: Session recordings and materials are accessible for three months after the live series ends, until May 1st, 2022.

If you cannot afford the registration price due to present hardship, please contact threesundaysdiscount@davidwhyte.com with a line of explanation for our heavily discounted rate.

Join David Whyte for what is becoming an annual ‘Start Close In’ Three Sundays in January, for a thoughtful and arresting entrance into this coming new year with a foundational emphasis on the act of ‘simplifying.’

There is a reason Marie Kondo is so popular in almost every corner of the developed world right now; we need to sweep and clear every corner of our minds as much as our homes and then we need to clean our world in the same way, all the while living in a time when we are constantly besieged by personal and planetary anxieties and difficulties.

Simplicity does not mean we refuse to engage in complex endeavours, nor turn away from the overwhelming nature of our present challenges. Simplicity does not mean naivety, nor putting our heads in the sand; but there is a necessity for powerful simple disciplines of the everyday, that begin with our breathing and our bodies, then move out through our simple movements; our speech, our homes and all the varied forms of our work, that can help us meet the world on better terms than any response that springs from anxiety.

Starting close in; means shaping a life where we can experience freedom, happiness and even joy in the midst of the difficulties that have accompanied every human life in every epoch of human history.

All of us can feel the tide beginning to turn and the road beginning to open again, however slowly, regarding our possible release from the confinements of the last two years. And yet all of us find ourselves still in the midst of the deep difficulties these trying two years have brought.

In the midst of overwhelming circumstance, no different from our own tumultuous times, human beings have always been called to a form of radical simplification, to returning to a true foundation from which they can step into a new life: to the making of new promises and the letting go of old ones. Our New Year’s resolutions are but magnified versions of this ancient taking on and giving up. The understanding has always been that we have to give away something precious; something we previously thought was fundamental. In this giving away we come to ground in our possibilities again, possibilities that were previously hidden by our too complicated view of what needed to be done, and who we needed to be in order to do it.

Poetry Postcard Fest

I have participated in this poetry event for about 8 years now.  It is fun to do and keeps your writing going everyday of August. You write a poem a day! And you will get a poem a day from the others on your list.

The Poetry Postcard Fest was initiated in 2007 by poets Paul Nelson and Lana Ayers and involves people signing up to send 31 original poems on postcards to folks on their list before the end of August. In 2020 there were 544 participants in over 11 countries.

Over 350 people from 11 countries have registered for the 15th Poetry Postcard Fest. Register today and don't miss out on the joy of writing poetry postcards and getting something other than solicitations when you go to your mailbox.

Registration Ends July 18!