| | David and i are blessed to be participating in the Glen Workshop of IMAGE Journal, in Santa Fe this week. he'll be blogging photos of the incredible setting, if he hasn't already, at his xanga site Haig Law. he's participating in the Fiction Workshop and i'm in one of the Poetry Worshops in the morning hours. after lunch, there's time for a nap every day before a presentation by one of the faculty members at 3:30. after supper, there's another faculty presentation, a worship time and usually an open mic or other performance of some sort.
the combination of top-notch artists from every field with discourse about how our faith inflects our art is very heady stuff -- both encouraging and challenging. and the beautiful setting of St. John's college on a mountainside south of Santa Fe is icing on the cake. every building has balconies and terraces with amazing views and so far every afternoon and/or evening has offered a short but sweet thunderstorm.
Thursday is a free day and we'll be taking the bus into town to visit the Georgia O'Keefe museum and maybe some shops. 
Sunday evening, at the opening session of the Glen, IMAGE editor and publisher Greg Wolfe's welcome to the group was interrupted. here's a poem about it.
The Glen 2009
opening night
Insistent wind blew a mountain thundershower
through open transoms. Ruach disturbed
heavy drapes of the conference room
to interrupt the speaker, capture
our minds, remind us Who
had called us to this time and place.
Afterward, we hurried to the terrace
breathing clean-washed air
glimpsing golden light on hills
like hinder parts of Him Who would
continue to disturb us through the week.
Becky Haigler
July 2009
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