Tania Pryputniewicz teaches Transformative Blogging and is currently writing a book based on her courses. She is looking to connect with other women bloggers, instructors of blogging and like-minded creatives. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshops, Tania is co-founding blogger and instructor at Mother, Writer, Mentor where she teaches Poetry of Motherhood and Poetry of Fatherhood. She has blogged since 2007 at Feral Mom, Feral Writer. Her latest poetry projects involve photo poem montages and poetry sculpture.
I thought all week about groups of three individuals working together as I considered last week’s writing prompt: Shifting Perceptions of Brokenness and a Three of Wands prompt, and in particular this phrase: If the three wands represent three individuals in your life, what might the virtue, aligned ideals, warmth and creativity of the Three […]
“Balance within my domain” (Angeles Arrien, The Tarot Handbook: Practical Applications of Ancient Visual Symbols) is how I experienced and lived my Two of Wands week (writing prompt for Two of Wands here). My dear friend Mary Allen visited last week from the heartland, so though I chose not to blog that day (thus the […]
When Robyn sends me this image of sunlight falling across a glass chess set this week, I fit it right into context as a manifestation of the Ace of Wands…Isn’t our sun the brightest example of the Ace of Wands? Here she is, her light falling against the chess pieces on a board, just as […]
Pelvic cradle cloud– Aunt, Sister, Matriarch’s love Holds us when earth can’t. While on writing retreat at Sea Ranch, I had a generational family experience (Ten of Disks) that proved to me that regardless of physical separation, families stay closely attuned and communicate inexplicably with one another. Though I was aware that an aunt of […]
Living my Nine of Disks week on writing retreat at Sea Ranch on the Northern California Coast, I found myself deeply connected to the card’s corresponding Major Arcanum, The Hermit. Though surrounded by eight of my writing sisters (a full flock of nine), I maintained a beautiful balance of solitary and social time. I rested, […]
Every writers group has its story: how it formed, what it provides. Ours, The Flamingos, is no exception. Nine of us started meeting in 2012 and haven’t stopped since, taking shelter in abodes once a year at Sea Ranch where we hide out together in order to write, share exercises, swap publishing targets, and witness […]