Lara Tupper: Swift Ink Stories

Pick Up the Pen

In the four weeks since I've sent out a newsletter, much has changed. Like so many, my work life has been upended. I worry about the safety of friends and family in health care. I dread the trip to the grocery store. I wonder what the next weeks will bring.

But, I remind myself, a simple pen-to-paper practice can remain. In these uncertain times, it helps to keep me sane.

Kripalu Center asked me to write about this practice in a recent article:

In an attempt to resist Netflix, my husband and I found gel pens and tried to recall the cursive alphabet. Uppercase Q and Z seemed wrong. But the rest drifted back to me like a secret code. I remembered penmanship paper, thin grey sheets with blue and pink lines for gauging the loops of lowercase Gs. At the top of that sheet, once, a gold star.

It was a welcome distraction, tracing letters on scrap paper at the dinner table with my husband.

Read the full article here: The Practice of Putting Pen to Paper

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