Friday, July 15, 2016: Last class

Friday, July 15, 2016: Last class

Friday was a bittersweet day, being the last day on the mountain. We had a good morning meditation and agreed to meet again Saturday morning. After breakfast, we had our last poetry workshop with Janice Fuller. It was a wonderful class all week. I learned a lot from reading the poetry of my classmates and from hearing their critiques of my poetry. Our class arranged to eat together at lunch, so the comradery continued. After lunch I went back to the Guest House and did some laundry and took a shower. I began assembling my belongings for leaving tomorrow. I am really going to miss these mountains. Of course I will have several more days of mountains on the way back.

When I get home, I want to go over all the comments on my poetry and revise some of them. I certainly want to make the change Susan suggested in “Moment.” Them I want to go through all my poetry and pick out the 10 or 20 best for my “Collected Works.” I also want to send a few off to journals to see if I can get anything published.

Saturday night was The Gong Show, a zany variety show of skits, spoofs, parodies and general silly behavior.