Becky Breed

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Becky Breed, a veteran educator, poet, and essayist, co-wrote and facilitated “Women at the Springs,” a Nebraska Humanities program empowering women to live more courageously, as well as “The Intergenerational Project” connecting elders and teens through stories to promote communication, writing, and use of the media. She has an Ed.D. in Education, and in addition to teaching at the university level, was the principal of a Gold Star School. Together with co-author Lucy Adkins, they co-authored Writing in Community: Say Goodbye to Writer’s Block and Transform Your Life, which was awarded an“IPPY” in the Independent Publisher Book Awards and The Fire Inside: A Companion for the Creative Life. Writing in Community, the first book in their “Ess ...more

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Becky Breed I am reading "Hidden Valley Road" by Robert, Kolker, "Transcendent Kingdom" by Yaa Gyasi, and "Too Much Happiness" By Alice Munro.…moreI am reading "Hidden Valley Road" by Robert, Kolker, "Transcendent Kingdom" by Yaa Gyasi, and "Too Much Happiness" By Alice Munro.(less)
Becky Breed I've had a lot of experience with this! First of all, I change scenery. Go outside and take a walk in nature. Or do a few yoga poses. Consider using m…moreI've had a lot of experience with this! First of all, I change scenery. Go outside and take a walk in nature. Or do a few yoga poses. Consider using my creativity in other ways, plan a new garden scheme, write a letter to a friend.(less)
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Dove Cottage: Finding Inspiration

A long time ago my husband and I took a trip to Great Britain and the Lake District, and while there, poet that I am, I couldn’t help but include in our itinerary a visit to Wordsworth’s Dove Cottage. Do you know it? It’s an unimposing place, a small whitewashed structure which was originally a pub called the “Dove and Olive.”

From late 1799 to 1808, Wordsworth lived there with his sister, Dorothy,

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We Shall Pass by Clifford Thurlow
“The soldier exists in a private hell half deaf and half blinded by poisonous fumes. He is suspended on a thread over a void containing all the terrible ways there are to die and he thinks about all the things he’d always meant to do and had never got round to doing. Most men are a confusion of half truths and vanity, of something lost and never completed.”
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“The more any of us writes, the more our words will "come to us." If we trust in the words and their own mysterious relationship with one another, they will help us find things out.

- Naomi Shihab Nye -”
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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it. ”
Emma Thompson

“We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.”
Eric Butterworth

“The more any of us writes, the more our words will "come to us." If we trust in the words and their own mysterious relationship with one another, they will help us find things out.

- Naomi Shihab Nye -”
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