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What Lights Your Way?
by Nancy Casey
When there is no sun, what lights your way?
This time of year, when you hardly see the sun, you can answer that question in the most literal sense by looking around you when it’s not light out. How do you see where you are going when it’s dark? Maybe you have a favorite lamp. What is the last light you turn off at night? Do you use different lights for different tasks?
You can also think about light figuratively. Consider inner light, and inner darkness. Can a light inside a person show the way? Have you had experiences with a sensation of light inside of yourself? Can an idea inside of your mind light the way by overcoming darkness? Can light shine in a person’s heart somehow?
Can the light that shines in somebody’s life take the form of a person? Think about the sayings, “You light up my life,” or “You are the light of my life.” How does that kind of light show somebody the way?
Today for your writing, think about light and all the different ways it dispels darkness. Think about how helpful light is when you are trying to get where you are going. Think about how helpful it is in not stubbing your toe. Think about how light can keep you from getting lost or feeling afraid.
Set up your page with a line for the title and some space for an illustration. As you do that, try to empty your mind of all the things you had planned to write. Then, just as you are about to write the first word, something will pop into your mind. Write about that.
When you have filled a page, take a careful look at your work. Make small changes and add illustration if you want to. When you are satisfied with the page, give it a title and write the date on it, too. Here is an example of what someone could write.
You can share your work by posting it as a comment below. You can type it in, or take a photo of it and upload the image.
Nancy Casey has lived in Latah County for many years. You can find more of her work here. She taught the Write-For-You writing class at the Recovery Center last summer and will return again in the spring. For more information about classes and writing certificates, contact Nancy or the Latah Recovery Community Center.
This Week at the LRC
Rural Crisis Center Network Quarterly Report
Our December Calendar
This Week at the Latah Recovery Center
Here’s a cool offering from Jason Shull: Vibrational Sound Therapy on 12/4, 6pm. I sat in on this last month and can attest that it was very soothing and interesting. Like guided meditation, but different. I hope you will give it a try.
Here’s the latest writing prompt from Write for You: https://latahrecoverycenter.org/2019/11/18/false-and-true/
We have some new Recovery Radio podcasts available for download on Googleplay and iTunes-check them out!
Here is our November calendar:
Click to access november-2019-at-the-latah-recovery-center.pdf
This Week at the Latah Recovery Center
Life has been exciting at the LRC!
Last week our new behavioral health crisis center opened. We’ve already had several clients come in and that needed to use this safe and secure facility .as a place to calm down, regroup, and start planning how to move forward.
Our rural outreach efforts in Deary/Kendrick and Potlatch are starting to gain some steam-expect All Recovery meetings in each town by the end of the month.
Here are some new or one time offerings coming up in Moscow::1. We have a monthlong series on Time Management and Organization kicking off on Tuesday November 5, from 7-8pm.2. We’re also starting a new monthly “give back” event-this is the recovery community’s chance to give back to our town. We kick it off with Pay It Back: Leaf Pick-Up Downtown. Wednesday 11/6, 2-4:30. B.Y.O. rakes and tools!3. Thanksgiving Dinner is 11/21 6-8pm
Our full calendar is here: https://latahrecoverycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/november-2019-at-the-latah-recovery-center.pdf
November at the Latah Recovery Center
We have a great month planned!
Here are some new or one time offerings planned:
1. We have a monthlong series on Time Management and Organization kicking off on Tuesday November 5, from 7-8pm.
2. We’re also starting a new monthly “give back” event-this is the recovery community’s chance to give back to our town. We kick it off with Pay It Back: Leaf Pick-Up Downtown. Wednesday 11/6, 2-4:30. B.Y.O. rakes and tools!
3. Thanksgiving Dinner is 11/21 6-8pm
Our full calendar is here: https://latahrecoverycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/november-2019-at-the-latah-recovery-center.pdf
Some additional exciting news: Our new behavioral health crisis center opens 11/1/19. Look for a grand opening at a later date.
Here is the latest writing prompt from our Write for You group: https://latahrecoverycenter.org/2019/10/28/wondering-where/
A HUGE Thank You to the many businesses that helped us with a very successful Soup’s On! https://latahrecoverycenter.org/2019/10/29/thank-you-to-our-soups-on-sponsors/
Thank You to our Soup’s On! Sponsors
Soup’s On! Wednesday! This Week at the Latah Recovery Center
Soup’s On! A Tasting to Benefit the Latah Recovery Center is 10/23 from 11-2 at the 1912 Center. This years restaurants are:
- Bloom
- The Breakfast Club
- La Casa Lopez
- Gritman Cafe
- Mikey’s
- Moscow Food Coop
- Seasons Public House
- Moscow Alehouse
- Sangria
- Maialina
Stax
Tickets are $20. Buy them at the Latah Recovery Center, from a volunteer, email latahrecoverycenter@gmail.com, buy at the door, or online at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/soups-on-a-tasting-to-benefit-the-latah-recovery-center-tickets-72456747081?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
We hope to see you there!
Soup’s On! is generously sponsored by:
$500
- Mann & Stanke
- Washington Trust Bank
- PACT EMS
$250 - Hayden Ross
- American Insurance
- Palouse Surgeons
- Curet Insurance
- Pickard Orthodontics
- Northwest River Supplies
- Moscow Realty
- Shorts Funeral Chapel
- Re/Max Connections
- We have new episodes of Recovery Radio for download on iTunes and googleplay. You can get it fresh from the kitchen Thursdays, 1:10 on KRFP.
Our October calendar: https://latahrecoverycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/october-2019-at-the-latah-recovery-center.pdf
This weeks writing prompt from Write for You! https://latahrecoverycenter.org/2019/10/21/for-example/
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