Ten years ago, Pilgrim Press published the book Jill Geoffrion and I wrote, The Labyrinth and the Enneagram. It has sold steadily since that time. The book was the result of three years of teaching at Wisdom Ways Spirituality Center.
However, ten years is a long time in the publishing world. This spring, Pilgrim Press decided it was time to stop printing it.
A decade is a good number - and time to reflect on the changes in my writing life over that period of time. As with most major events in life, its publication seems both like just yesterday and and so long ago, I don't remember even where I was in life at the time.
What I do know is how I have moved from part-time to full-time writing. I teach poetry at The Loft Literary Center, something I never could have imagined ten years ago. I have published a book of poetry, Waiting For the Heat to Pass, and just yesterday picked up boxes of my newest book, There is no Future in the Past: A Travel Memoir. And another book of poetry is in process, this one a collaborative effort with Clem, my beloved colleague. And we still dream of putting together a book of his poetry and my photography from the work we have exhibited.
Some of these events in my life are the fulfilment of dreams, but a lot of it is the willingness to follow those dreams into unknown territory. To live out dreams I never knew I had!
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