AWW Official Day 1

Once again I am blown away.  This is my year.  This is the year that I will become the woman I am.  I declared earlier this summer that this would be the summer of writing.  While I wish that was the case, this has become the summer of discovering who I am.

Hindman is no exception to that rule.  I have been to the Appalachian Writer's Workshop here at Hindman Settlement School before.  I am not a newbie.  But for the first time I am staying on campus this week instead of commuting in from Hazard.  I don't believe that is the only difference.  I believe there is a difference in me.  I am finding within myself a woman who is strong, who is caring, who is funny and self sacrificing.  There is within me a woman who is confidant, who is happy.  There is a woman inside of me that is happy.

I like this woman; I want to get to know her.  I am finding her now; I'm am finding her here.

There truly is a type of magic that happens in this place. I'm not sure I understand it.  In fact, I'm certain I don't understand it.  There is a beauty here that transcends beyond anything that I know.  I am a writer.  I cannot describe the feeling here.  Words do not encompass the majesty of this place, this time, this community, this sense of being.