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I’m writing in the woods

July 25, 2016 By Talya Tate Boerner 5 Comments

Writing in the woodsFive years ago if someone asked me where I’d be today, I don’t know what I would have said. But I wouldn’t have said writing in the woods. The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow might have been my answer if I played a game of eenie-meenie-miney-moe with multiple choice answers. In my mind, any place with “colony” attached to it was highly sketchy. A colony involved hippie living, pot growing, and Kum Ba Yah singing.

Or lepers.

Lepers lived in colonies, didn’t they?

As a kid, I thought the Mississippi County Penal Colony had something to do with naked men and it scared me being so close to our farm. That’s another story for another time. The point is, things change in five years. Sometimes drastically. Today, I’m happy to be hanging at the Writers’ Colony, and I couldn’t pick Wall Street Journal prime interest rate from a multiple choice list.

Sometimes I’m surprised by all the change.

Eureka Springs

So I’m sitting in my favorite writing space deep in the woods writing all the words that come to me and hoping to get something accomplished. But just being here is an accomplishment. I realize that.

Yesterday we had a sunshower—bright sunshine and fat raindrops without a cloud overhead. The devil was beating his wife, or so the saying goes. This morning, thunder rolls down the hollow. Perfect writing weather.

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Musical Pairing:
Thunder and Rain in the Woods

P.S. Bet you thought my music would be Kum Ba Yah, didn’t ya?

Or Thunder Rolls?

Filed Under: Arkansas, Simple Pleasures, Travel, Writing Tagged With: Dairy Hollow, Eureka Springs, Northwest Arkansas, writing colony, writing in the zone

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  1. Barbara Tate says

    July 25, 2016 at 3:56 pm

    Loved the thunder & rain in the woods. I get thunder and rain in my apartment now. 50% chance today, 80% chance Thursday. I have the furniture pushed back and my cotton ready for the rain.

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  2. Laurie says

    July 25, 2016 at 5:29 pm

    Love the sound of the rain! It didn’t rain a drop here, and I was all ready for it too. Write all the words!

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  3. Dorothy Johnson says

    July 25, 2016 at 8:15 pm

    I’m glad to be here with you. Glad and fortunate.

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    • Karson says

      December 2, 2016 at 4:36 am

      Hola: m’agrada molt la cervesa Moritz 0´0 però on jo resideixo ( Santa Susanna-08398-Barcelona ) no trobo cap botami-supergercat,etc..on poder comprar-la. Els estaria molt agraït em poguessin indicar on comprar-la prop del meu domicili. Moltes gràcies

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  4. Kimberly says

    July 28, 2016 at 9:42 am

    Grew up in “The County”, now living in Texas… Thanks for the Arkansas reminder in the thunder and rain. Almost forgot what it sounded like!

    Reply

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