It’s July and I’m taking most of the month off from my regular routine of classes and workshops. It’s time for my annual writing retreat. This time I’m staying home rather than packing it up and going off somewhere as I’ve done for several years. Instead of settling into a different and dedicated retreat space, I’ll still sleep in the same bed as every other night, I’ll still look at my same self in the same morning mirror. It will be the same view out the window, same chair, same writing table, coffee cup, notebook, computer.

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