GOODBYE
Dear Readers: This is my last post for Live to Write – Write to Live.
It has been deeply gratifying to post my thoughts about the business and craft of writing here every other week for almost eight years. I have enjoyed sharing my knowledge, my successes and my challenges with you. And I’ve loved the “Likes” and comments you have given me in reply.
I’ve come to recognize many of your avatars, enjoyed stimulating correspondence with others of you, and consider a few of you my on-line friends. I will miss you, but it’s time for me to consolidate.
CONSOLIDATION
The impasse I came to with Vermont Public Radio has shaken me in curious and unlooked for ways. Most notably, I am honoring a need to consolidate my thoughts and energies to telling the two stories I’ve been working on in fits and starts these past years. I recognize the need to make telling them my priority, and to do that, I have to give up the shorter, easier, extremely gratifying work of writing for you.
TURNING INWARD
Between the death of my father, the end of my term as Chair of the Brattleboro Community Justice Center, and my break with VPR, I sense in myself a great moving inward, as if I’m finally ready to sit still and listen to the voice rising from deep inside.
LIVING IN PLACE
I will continue to post an essay every Wednesday on my personal blog, Living in Place. I invite you to join me there, where I write about our human condition by telling stories. Humans are a narrative species. We thrive on stories.
For reasons I don’t begin to understand, I seem to have been chosen to tell them. I hope you will honor me by subscribing to Living in Place. I look forward to seeing your avatars there, and to engaging in thoughtful exchanges of ideas and opinions.
FARE WELL, WRITE WELL
I wish you all the courage to tell your own stories. May you always find the exact word you need to say what you mean and thereby engage in that intimate relationship between writer and reader.
Fare well,
Deborah.
Deborah Lee Luskin is a writer, speaker and educator who blogs weekly at Living in Place.
I wish all all the very best Heather as you move into this new chapter of your life. May it be infinitely rewarding.
I certainly wish you well and have subscribed to your personal blog!
I will miss you!! It was always nice to see you avatar, and even though I didn’t get a chance to read all your posts, I appreciated your insights and encouragement for writing.
Wishing you the best and I will subscribe to your new blog.
Deborah, I will miss your contributions on Live to Write, but look forward to following you on your personal blog. Your words inspire me to write more and read more. Good luck with the new and ongoing endeavours!
All the best to you and thank you for the words you have given us.
Fare thee well and wishing you the very best as you move onto this new chapter of your life 😉
Hey Deborah,
Best wishes for your next chapters!
Warmly,
Diane
Fare well, write well – certainly a key take away. I intend to use this on my farewell write up. Thanks and All the best. See you in Living in place.
Thank you so much for your knowledge, your tips and advice.
Thank you for your contribution to this blogging experience I am still on. Your help your tips and advice were always appreciated.
Best of luck to you Deborah!
Thanks for the update, Deb. I’ll be following you with interest as things unfold!
Thank you for everything you’ve done to encourage my writing. Sad to see you go. But I will be looking for your inspiring content on the other blog space. Love, peace, and all the encouragement your heart can hold. 🙂
Good site
So sorry to hear that you’re leaving. I think you should get a job editing as your writing is quite nice. Check out some editing sites like https://editmypaper.ca and maybe write here someday soon.