Writer's Workshop

LIFE-REEXAMINED: MEMOIR

Sometimes we move through our lives at the world’s pace, instead of our own, neglecting taking space for a reexamination. Reexamination is deeper than reflection. It is holding our lives up to our own standards, formed by integrity, truth, compassion and forgiveness. Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.”

Time moves us, pushing and pulling us, ready or not, towards the same end-death. Will our last breath be one of gratitude or dissatisfaction, saying” Wait, I’m not ready,” or “Thank you?”

Writing is one way of preparing an honest assessment of, hopefully, a life well lived.

Join me as we use writing as a way to re-examine and reflect on our lives, discovering how we have lived, and behaved and how to live forward with more compassion for ourselves and others.

Kierkegaard “ Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”

ABOUT DAVYNE VERSTANDIG:

Davyne Verstandig was a lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Connecticut. (retired June 2020 after 25 years, where she was the Director of The Litchfield County Writers Project.)

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She has given writing workshops throughout New England.

She is Poet Laureate Emerita of Washington and has performed her work throughout New England and New York. She is a Justice of the Peace. As a writing advisor she has helped many writers with their novels, memoirs and poetry collections. She can be found at bXltaW5kaXNpbnRoZWluayB8IGdtYWlsICEgY29t.

Her website is www.davyneverstandig.com

Her work is included in the following anthologies:

Sex and Sexuality if a Feminist World

Laureates of Connecticut, An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry

Waking Up to the Earth, Connecticut Poets in a Time of Global Climate Crisis

Her books include Pieces of the Whole and Provisions.

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