I’m delighted to let you know that my new book Foolsgold: Making Something from Nothing (and freeing your creative process) is available now from Harmony Books, Random House. Through personal stories about transforming what life brings your way, Foolsgold aims to help open you to more creativity in all areas of your life. The book invites each of us to find our own way.

Read an article about Foolsgold here. And be sure to check the calendar below for readings or workshops near you.

Foolsgold is being featured by Quality Paperback Book Club as well as One Spirit Book Club.

Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. (author of Kitchen Table Wisdom) writes, “Foolsgold? ….in a word, beautiful. Beautiful, beautiful! And, of course a book that may save your life.” My mom (featured in the book) says, “Read it!”

If possible, support a local bookstore and order a copy there. Tell them they’ll surely need several copies! Or, if it’s easier, go ahead and order online. Check out Barnes and Noble online as well as Amazon and Lyon Books.

Contact me for creative play/writing evening, day or weekend retreats.  Have pens and fool’s tools, will travel!   poemcrzy@shocking.com   (Notice:  no “a” in the crazy)

Here’s a quote from a chapter in Foolsgold called, “Freeing the Creek:”

“…..I’m gradually learning that, paradoxically, it’s the blunderings, giving ups, breakdowns, in spite ofs, chance encounters, letting gos, and mess-ups, that have led to most of the creativity in my life, not the “enlightened” inspiration, and certainly not feeling in control. It’s the listenings, buzz hums, the falling (leaping) down the rabbit hole, the stepping through the looking glass, barefoot, with no suitcase, in new territory.”

And from “Moving the Dishes”

The creative, it seems, is spawned from emptiness. Giving over to silence, waiting, allowing, listening. Coming to emptiness may mean coming through grief. Something has been lost, a marriage, a child, a house, a city, a world. An idea of who we are. Whatever seems familiar, tried and true.

In the emptiness we may get an inkling—as if something lights up and twinkles—of how we’ll begin to form and open to who we’re becoming, who we most truly are. We need to leave space both for what we will discover and what will emerge to discover us.

Susan
Feel free to write poemcrzy@shocking.com