Category Archives: prayer

Heart Openers

Posted on April 19, 2013 by lindseycrittenden

My friend (and former student) Callie Feyen is teaching the writing portion of a writing-and-yoga class in Gaithersburg, Maryland. She shared with me the worksheets for the first class—Enter, Discover, Journey. The yoga teacher, she added, will be teaching poses … Continue reading →

Posted in craft, prayer, teaching, writing | Tagged Callie Feyen, chest openers, conflict, confrontation, corpse pose, fictional conflict, Gaithersburg MD, heart-openers, heart-opening poses, Iyengar yoga, Lindsey Crittenden, Marine World, Pa Ingalls, savasana, supta baddha konasana, supta virasana, The View from Below, writing classes, yoga, Yukon | 6 Comments

Branding

Posted on January 25, 2013 by lindseycrittenden

Yesterday over lunch at the Grotto, where I’m subletting office space, another writer (also finishing up her novel) and I got on the topic of branding. You know, the “author brand.” I resisted the first time I heard the phrase, … Continue reading →

Posted in community, prayer, spirituality, writing | Tagged A History of the Present Illness, author branding, author photos, author publicity, elevator speech, Lindsey Crittenden, Louise Aronson, Mary Gaitskill, SF Writers' Grotto, The Water Will Hold You, Veronica | 4 Comments

Listening, Reading, Listening

Posted on December 14, 2012 by lindseycrittenden

Write a blog long enough, and you start to repeat yourself. I started this blog in April 2011 and have written about silence a few times since then. As I sit down this morning to write the newest post, silence … Continue reading →

Posted in community, prayer, reading | Tagged Advent, Billy Don't Be A Hero, Bishop's Ranch, Chaim Potok, Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack, Language Arts, Lindsey Crittenden, middle school, My Darling My Hamburger, My Name Is Asher Lev, reading, retreats, Seasons in the Sun, silence, silent retreats, The Outsiders | 3 Comments

Rediscovering Rilke

Posted on September 14, 2012 by lindseycrittenden

this post is a slightly edited version of a post that appeared on August 20, 2012, on the Good Letters blog In college, I took a yearlong class on Western Civilization. Certain images stand out: reading Oedipus Rex on the … Continue reading →

Posted in faith, prayer, reading, spirituality, teaching | Tagged Anita Barrows, Book of Hours, centering prayer, Father Thomas Keating, German language, Good Letters, Joanna Macy, Letters to a Young Poet, Lindsey Crittenden, poetry, prayer, quoting Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke, The Water Will Hold You, To Rome With Love | 2 Comments

It’s Only A Dream

Posted on July 20, 2012 by lindseycrittenden

When I was in third grade, my class took a field trip to Kirby Cove, a small rocky beach just west of the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge. To get there, we had to walk—or in my case, … Continue reading →

Posted in faith, prayer, spirituality, teaching, writing, writing groups | Tagged Danskin, dreaming, dreams, elementary school, Kirby Cove, Lindsey Crittenden, novel-writing, The Water Will Hold You, third grade, writing fiction | 2 Comments

Out of the Faith Closet

Posted on June 22, 2012 by lindseycrittenden

When I started blogging, a little more than a year ago, I did so as an exploration of social media as a tool to reach my readers, to “build my brand” as a writer. I was curious about (and a … Continue reading →

Posted in faith, prayer, spirituality, writing, writing groups | Tagged A Skeptic Learns to Pray, blog posts, blog topics, blogging, blogs, building brand, Deborah Bryan, Facebook, faith, Lindsey Crittenden, Meghan Ward, Monster in Your Closet, prayer, praying, religion, religious topics, SF Writers' Grotto, skepticism, social media, spiritual autobiography, spiritual memoir, spiritual topics, spirituality, taboo topics, The Water Will Hold You, Twitter, virgin birth, writer's brand, writers' taboos | 11 Comments

April Is National Poetry Month

Posted on March 30, 2012 by lindseycrittenden

My friend and writing colleague Ilana de Bare has posted a terrific piece on her blog, Midlife Bat Mitzvah, about Adrienne Rich, who died on Tuesday. Like, I suspect, a lot of women, I heard about Rich before I ever … Continue reading →

Posted in craft, prayer, reading, spirituality, writing | Tagged Adrienne RIch, brother's death, eulogies, grief, heaven, Ilana de Bare, jays, lament, Lindsey Crittenden, Midlife Bat Mtizvah, mourning, Pattiann Rogers, poetry, poets of desire, prayer, precision, prophecy, sympathy cards, The Next Story, The Water Will Hold You, W.H. Auden | 2 Comments

The Space Between

Posted on December 16, 2011 by lindseycrittenden

Last weekend, I went on silent retreat, as I have for the past eight Decembers, at the Bishop’s Ranch in Healdsburg, California. I mark the season of Advent—the four weeks leading up to Christmas—by fleeing shops and noise and email, … Continue reading →

Posted in craft, prayer, spirituality, writing | Tagged Advent, Advent Quiet Days, apophatic prayer, Barbara Brown Taylor, Bishop's Ranch, book design, definitions of divine, definitions of God, language, limitations of language, Lindsey Crittenden, negative space, path of unknowing, silence, silent retreats, via negative, When God Is Silent, Yale Divinity School | Leave a comment

Airing the Laundry

Posted on September 23, 2011 by lindseycrittenden

I will be taking off the next three weeks. My next post will appear Friday, October 21. I’ve never worried about offending anyone while writing. Maybe it’s all those years of uncensored diary entries about mad crushes and revenge fantasies … Continue reading →

Posted in faith, prayer, spirituality, writing | Tagged family's dirty laundry, Jenny Sanford, Lindsey Crittenden, Meghan Ward, memoir, Mommie Dearest, narrative, prayer, South Carolina, The Water Will Hold You, Writerland | 1 Comment

Listening Anew

Posted on June 17, 2011 by lindseycrittenden

In found pockets of spare time – the five minutes before needing to leave to make an appointment; the fifteen minutes between emails – I’ve been updating my list of books on this blog. I’m not sure too many readers … Continue reading →

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Category Archives: prayer

Heart Openers

Branding

Listening, Reading, Listening

Rediscovering Rilke

It’s Only A Dream

April Is National Poetry Month

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