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The Write Place At the Write Time is a unique online literary publication; we are a supportive writers' environment dedicated to artistic expression, learning and living the written word.
For this week of July 3rd (anniversary of our founding) and the Fourth of July we send warmest wishes to all. Further July posts, etc. to come (including an anecdote about an act of kindness taking place in a historic shop that dates back to the 1700s). Enjoy your holiday with loved ones safely and happily.
Photo: "Unity" by NMB; photo taken at regional zoo exhibit
Beloved WPWT family and FB friends: It is customary to send along summer greetings to you on this auspicious day each year that coincides with the founding of our publication (7/3/2008) and so we included such a greeting for the times on our interim version of the Home page as our we work ever onward as creators do with positive progression, passion and conviction, from foundation to firmament to consciously and compassionately forge the future. Our love to you on journeys solitary and shared, and gratitude for your continued support ❤
Excerpt from Home page text (note there are quotation marks unaltered in body of text, and some added surrounding it):
"According to Almanac.com, the online presence of The Old Farmer’s Almanac founded in 1792, an almanac “is defined as a ‘calendar of the heavens.’” The Old Farmer’s Almanac, this piece of our history from the 1700s, was designed to help forecast the weather of the nation and had its audience looking to the stars, sun, and moon to read the times. With the recent, bizarre phenomenon of the five-planet alignment (ultimately joined by the moon), as well as an unexpected solar storm impacting Earth in the wake of the solstice preceding July, what do the skies say of what we are weathering now? The summer piece on Almanac.com included folklore such as the following: “If there are many falling stars during a clear summer evening, expect thunder.” This weekend the literal forecast includes a watch indication, as it portends a “severe thunderstorm” for this historied section of the country as we write. A national site depicts thunder being the result of rapidity regarding “the air surrounding the path of a lightning bolt.” Lightning bolts on a path, resulting thunder, fluctuating interstellar anomalies, and folklore around trajectory of stars, reflect something seemingly symbolic in currently reading and interpreting a “calendar” forecasting futures we, like those before us, cannot ever fully know. There are steadying certainties in life, however, in times of the unexpected when navigation by antiquated astronomical charts and concepts, due to shifts and storms, will not do. What was expected from the ancient civilizations and acknowledged by Benjamin Franklin as being integral to life itself, was change—it is this we are reminded of in Franklin’s quote, “When you are finished changing, you are finished.” That is to say, work, life, time moves forward, changing, progressing, and adapting in necessity. Timely, perhaps—when being reminded of the power of words, inherent responsibility and intent in creating something to reach and embrace all, along with provisions for necessary change by design to reflect the times—that we discuss, as we do annually, the founding of this very publication on July 3rd, 2008.
"Our beloved readers and contributors... As you know, we here at WPWT have been toiling by the guidance of our own “calendar of the heavens,” what must be a kind of inspired literary almanac with its own sense of time, aspiration for the alignment of influencing factors, unpredictable weather of outside obstacles fluctuating in the most challenging years of our lives, and transformative profundity in the discoveries made reading lines of light in creative journeys (our own and others’) within these times. On the unseen road forward, bits and pieces of conversation and connection with new and known creatives across varied cultures around the world, are gathered as clues leading to possibility of form, fresh notions of emergence on a solid foundation which is that founding premise dedicated “to a humanitarian approach to the arts.” Every shared experience and edition over all these years, each idea for higher purpose, liberation in expression, art, truth—binds us together. The modern technology age and accompanying alterations affecting over a billion, combined with urgent and advancing chronic circumstances and conditions on individual levels, all contributed as continued catalysts for change, and yet, what is drawn from everything learned and wisdom gained, is understanding that excites the creative faculties of the mind and transcends seasons to put things in line with what needs to be nurtured and responded to.
"Even in our interim time, we’ve had presence though our blog and social media with activities, series, and resources. We’ve featured prompts, photography, activities, features (including guest posts and articles from editors and celebrated authors), in addition to a raffle with wonderful prizes (consisting of acclaimed memoir, fiction best-sellers, writer resources/book promo, sustainable style, and fine art). We spent the early part of this year transitioning with you in a social media series with book and music suggestions, research on history and tradition, prompts and more, and again this year, donated to Feeding America. The first half of the year brought both good fortune and significant hardship in certain respects, but as the word solstice is derived from Latin terms, one of which means still, we have learned how and when to reset in the stillness and how and when to move in momentum. Traditions of the solstice include releasing the first half of the year and its difficulties while blessing and working toward what you wish for in the second half. Whatever the timing of the “calendar of the heavens,” may we all continue to compassionately, consciously forge, instead of forecast, futures which serve as inspiration and example, worthy of who we are, congruent with the efforts of all who worked and pioneered, suffered, sacrificed and persevered before us. For creators, our work goes on in all we do. Onward." ~Editorial Staff, WPWT
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