I am truly excited to have been asked to teach at a very special retreat this spring (March 10-14, 2010) on the breathtaking, lifechanging, magical Oregon coast. Registration is now open, and I hear these things fill up quickly, so please check it out!
Created by the wildly talented Liz Lamoreux, the Be Present Retreats "are an invitation to pause in your life and gather in an intimate, creative community to explore, create, discover, and soak up the world around you." At re(discover), the third retreat in the series, we will be "rediscovering" some "old school" arts in a modern way in workshops that explore through-the-viewfinder photography (where you use a digital camera to take photos through the viewfinder of an old camera [how cool is that]), book making (by hand!), and embroidery (with your own initials, of course).
I am silly excited to be teaching with Andrea Jenkins and Stephanie Lee. Andrea's photos are just crazy good — generous and interesting and emotional (hmmm, very much like my friend herself, in fact). Stephanie is one of those people that is just seriously creative. Inspiring. She makes jewelry, paints, sculpts, teaches, and writes. She and I have yet to meet, but even her correspondence is effusive and generous. It has been a long time since I took a class outside of a familiar medium, and I am so into doing that right now that I can't wait to learn some new stuff here.
The fact that the retreat is in Manzanita, one of the absolute best places ever, well . . .
That has absolutely no bearing on how excited I am about this.
No, none at all








