Green Windows Retirement: Update

Yes, Green Windows is still scheduled to shut its shutters at the end of June.
This has nothing to do with the COVID-19 crises. You can read here about why Green Windows is retiring. 

The timing, from my point of view, now seems perfect.  I have been so deeply grateful these past several weeks for the community we've built over the last twelve years. I've needed you. I've needed to write with you. I needed you in order to find my own words to use as oars to paddle through these hard times day by day. I've seen you need each other, too. And sharing words helps us all understand everything better, not feel alone, and have a sort of collective empowerment. 

We've also been able to write together a lot more. Not because I have more time (I don't) but because there is no travel time. Being with you online is not the same, and not as wonderful, but it is wonderful and the technology is a blessing, allowing us to be together and to be together even more often.  And writing together more often has given folks an opportunity to explore ways the community might continue post-Green Windows.  So I'm grateful that all the other times I considered ending Green Windows, I pushed on, so we could get to this moment together. 

The timing of this retirement is also good for me because letting go of Green Windows will allow me the time, headspace and energy to find responses to the tragedies, deepening inequities, and opportunities of this crisis with organizations such as The Beat Within and the ATD Fourth World Movement. 

Here's the retirement plan:

* Instead of a monthly Uniquely Yours workshop in June, we will have an online Celebration! June 28th, 7pm. Everyone is invited!  We will do a little writing, because that's what we do, and I promise it will be painless even if that's not your thing. Please contribute your ideas for this celebration, your last words even if you can't attend, and RSVP here. 

* Our 127th and last monthly Uniquely Yours workshop is Sunday, May 24th, 7pm, online. Please sign up for our newsletter and indicate your interest in online workshops if you would like to join us.

* Jenna Frisch and I will facilitate as many other online workshops as we can through the end of June.  The schedule will change week to week to adjust to our other changing commitments.  Please sign up for our newsletter and indicate your interest in online workshops if you would like to join us.

* We have been posting writing from the workshops, here on the blog. Check it out! Much of this blog is being put together into a book that will be available for online purchase at the end of June.  You can still submit writing for the blog through June 30th, but submissions for the book are closed. 

Thank you for all your support and all the words you've given Green Windows and each other over the years. I can't wait to see what you do next.

All my best,

Peggy

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