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The details for the Spring 2026 Session:
NABGBG meets online (Zoom).
We’ll meet four times this session:
7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursdays, March 5, March 19, April 2 and April 16.
Writing Down the Bonesby Natalie Goldberg is the book for this session (see below)
Writing Down the Bones is arguably Natalie Goldberg’s most well-known book. Originally published more than thirty years ago as a book on writing, Bones is really a magic manual (as one reviewer calls is) that combines meditation with writing to create a mindfulness practice that is practical, personal, and oh-so-good for the soul.
In this session of NABGBG, we’ll learn about the how, what, and why of practices for paying attention. That’s what this book is all about: the ways we can better pay attention, listen, look, engage with the real meat of life. We’ll read the book together and write through some of the practices on the pages, too. Participants receive weekly e-mails for support: articles, questions and/or videos for contemplation, consideration and connection grounded in the topic-at-hand. This course, after all, isn’t just about learning good-to-know information. It’s about taking all of the things we learn and discover and using those details to grow ever more human, ever more good in our little corners of the world. Support is a good thing. So is connection.
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Over the years, NABGBG participants have read Anne Lamott, Thomas Moore, Brené Brown, Padriag O’Tuama, Richard Rohr, and others with an eye for seeing the sacred in the simple stuff of life. We’ve explored (among other things) grief, good, things-that-are-considered-sacred, community, blessing, gratitude, grace, prayer, and hope…and along the way have conjured up a lot of “A-ha!”s, more than a few “Huh…”s, and a whole lot of “Damn, I hadn’t thought of it that way before…”. People don’t necessarily walk away with a lot of hard-and-fast, once-and-for-all answers to the questions that come up in these sessions, but we all walk away with insights that shape us for the better.
It’s so good. As one participant once put it: “This is the best part of my week…”
Questions? Contact Angie Arendt: angie@bigstonehouse.org.
(yes, that’s Angie’s copy of this book in the photo…it is well read, well loved).
The details for the Spring 2026 Session:
NABGBG meets online (Zoom).
We’ll meet four times this session:
7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursdays, March 5, March 19, April 2 and April 16.
Writing Down the Bonesby Natalie Goldberg is the book for this session (see below)
Writing Down the Bones is arguably Natalie Goldberg’s most well-known book. Originally published more than thirty years ago as a book on writing, Bones is really a magic manual (as one reviewer calls is) that combines meditation with writing to create a mindfulness practice that is practical, personal, and oh-so-good for the soul.
In this session of NABGBG, we’ll learn about the how, what, and why of practices for paying attention. That’s what this book is all about: the ways we can better pay attention, listen, look, engage with the real meat of life. We’ll read the book together and write through some of the practices on the pages, too. Participants receive weekly e-mails for support: articles, questions and/or videos for contemplation, consideration and connection grounded in the topic-at-hand. This course, after all, isn’t just about learning good-to-know information. It’s about taking all of the things we learn and discover and using those details to grow ever more human, ever more good in our little corners of the world. Support is a good thing. So is connection.
*************
Over the years, NABGBG participants have read Anne Lamott, Thomas Moore, Brené Brown, Padriag O’Tuama, Richard Rohr, and others with an eye for seeing the sacred in the simple stuff of life. We’ve explored (among other things) grief, good, things-that-are-considered-sacred, community, blessing, gratitude, grace, prayer, and hope…and along the way have conjured up a lot of “A-ha!”s, more than a few “Huh…”s, and a whole lot of “Damn, I hadn’t thought of it that way before…”. People don’t necessarily walk away with a lot of hard-and-fast, once-and-for-all answers to the questions that come up in these sessions, but we all walk away with insights that shape us for the better.
It’s so good. As one participant once put it: “This is the best part of my week…”
Questions? Contact Angie Arendt: angie@bigstonehouse.org.
(yes, that’s Angie’s copy of this book in the photo…it is well read, well loved).