And there will be six days of it! August 1-6 in Washington, Maine. We''ll write and read and eat great food; we'll walk and boat and swim, and for these days become a radically intimate group.

Even if you haven't begun your PW practice, you can learn how to begin on Sunday evening, and then just learn by doing with some of us PW veterans. It's a for real phenomenon, this Proprioceptive Writing, as this last quarter of a century has shown. You learn how to finally alter habits of thought; and, as you do, you also alter habits of feeling-- you become a person of feeling, that powerful intellect of ours now working in the name of heart intelligence.

I feel this event will be a before and after one for many of us--a glimpse of what it might be like to have one's inner life honored in a terribly materialistic and cynical historical moment. How's the song have it? Love is in the air . . . even with the pollution!