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and the Process: Dancing with Words to Touch Pain to Reach Heaven Writing
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Inspiring. Non-threatening. Joyous. These are the words that have been used to describe the feelings that Margot imparts to individuals to which she has been invited to speak. “We poets (artists, writers) struggle with Non-being to force it to yield Being. We knock upon silence for an answering music.” A Chinese saying. Margot talks about the answer to our knock. And the fact that it comes. Her personal inspiration and kindred philosophy finds itself joyously and profoundly expressed in several pieces of writing. Works by Milan Kundera, Jeanette Winterson, and Rollo May. Individuals are often frightened and anxious about their encounter with language, that which has been written by others, and that which they create or wish to create. Often doubting their heart and soul talk. Margot addresses this anxiety head-on. Showing that not only is the anxiety normal, it is the essential starting point from which to access the creative self, the essential self. She has and continues to do so with the process of creating and publishing her own work, and teaching others how to revel and rejoice in that encounter. Trent University Professor, Kelly Young, has invited Margot to speak to her English class which is comprised of individuals who will become teachers. Inspiring students to write grows from the capacity of the teacher herself. Kelly was inspired by Margot’s essential views, after hearing her speak to a large group about the processes of writing and self-publishing. Margot has spoken to several writing and reading groups about how they can access the language they have or need in order to dance with encounter. You will laugh from the gut and cry from the depths, and you will understand why, what Rollo May says, is true, beyond the shadow of a doubt: That, “the greatness of a poem or painting is not that it portrays the thing observed or experienced. But that it portrays the artist’s or poet’s vision cued off by his encounter with the reality. Hence the poem or the painting is unique, original, never to be duplicated.” "To dance with language," Margot shares, "is as unique and liberating, as it is vital." Contact Margot for further information or to book an appointment.
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