More than Writers

  This is my farewell post after exactly 5 years on the ACW blog. I’ve been very grateful for the opportunity and all that it’s given me: confidence, discipline, practice, friendships. But when I came to the end of my MA last year, I wondered if it was time to for a new stage in my writing journey and when I got an email from Rosemary offering the possibility of long termers to step down, I took it as confirmation from God that now was the time to let someone else have the blessings I’ve had here. So, what do I write about in a final blogpost? In the words of Hollow Talk, the evocative theme tune of The Bridge: ‘everything/goes back to the beginning’. In my very first ACW post I wrote about beekeeping and the idea of how God ‘keeps’ us. I promised a later post about how we writers are wordkeepers – but I notice I never wrote it. Time to come good on my promise. But, as my writing has developed over the past 5 years, I’ll do so with a poem:   Words    buzz a...