At the center of your life

be like mountain

or tree on mountain

or moss on tree

or seeds of moss

so infinitesimal

they will surely come

to nothing.

Patricia Lee Lewis

Biography

Patricia Lee Lewis leads writing retreats at Patchwork Farm in western Massachusetts and internationally. She celebrates our relationship to the earth as sacred, to writing as a way of finding what is deepest within us, and to teaching writing as a participatory, supportive endeavor. She holds an MFA degree in Creative Writing from Vermont College, and a BA from Smith College, Phi Beta Kappa. An Affiliate of Amherst Writers & Artists and national trainer of workshop leaders, her chapbook of poems, A Kind of Yellow, won first prize for poetry in Writer's Digest's International Competition of self-published books, 2005. It is available at www.writingretreats.org.