IN SEARCH OF BEAUTY
June 6, 2026  2:00 – 3:30 PM ET (eastern time, USA) 

Where do we go in search of beauty? How can attentive language help us keep that beauty near? What happens when we trust the vessel of language with moments we do not wish to lose? We’ll search for the places—expected and unexpected—where beauty lives. We’ll choose words. We’ll consider the flash, the prose poem, the lyric narrative, and the confession. We’ll turn to writers such as Gerard Manley Hopkins, Mary Oliver, Anna Badkhen, Margaret Renkl, Stanley Kunitz, Chloe Dalton, and Ted Kooser for inspiration. By the end of the session, you will have drafted language in honor of something beautiful in your life, and created, in that way, a framework for future meditations.