recent email about writing workshop fyi

Hi Susan,

You might want to take the first draft of this work up on a flyer to your meeting. Dates are final ... we haven't yet determined the fee ... it will be less than $250 and more than $180. We are still calculating food costs.

Kuya

draft 1:

Kootenay Lake Writing Retreat

Writing Workshop with Luanne Armstrong and Kuya Minogue.

A weekend of writing, camping by Kootenay Lake and good, farm grown, vegetarian food at the Armstrong Farm on Kootenay Lake. Start and end the day with Zen Writing Practice and attend two morning workshops with Luanne Armstrong. Afternoons will be free for beach time, hiking, canoeing, reading etc. Private beach, kayaks, canoes, available. Wireless also available.

Accommodations:

Tenting spaces with picnic tables and fireplaces are available for participants. Also available, small trailers, or bunk beds in the main house. Campsites are level, beside the lake and accessible by car. The Armstrong farm is a working heritage organic family farm that has been in existence for 80 years. The family welcome visitors. Food from the farm will form a large part of the menu.

When: Starts Friday September 10 at 7:00 pm and ends Sunday Sept 12 after lunch.?

Where: The Armstrong Farm and ZenWords Zen Centre Lakeside hermitage.

The farm is 31 kms. north of Creston BC. The fire number is 9941. The phoneno. is 250-223-8203.

Cost: TBA (includes land fee, food and instructor fees)

Spaces are limited and filling fast.

Zen Writing Practice: learn to link a meditation practice to your writing process.

Writing Workshops: learn to Luanne Armstrong is an award winning writer of fourteen books and a creative writing instructor at the University of British Columbia.

Kuya Minogue is a Zen monk and the Canadian Dharma heir for Natalie Goldberg's Zen Writing Practice lineage. She will teach Zen meditation and Zen writing.