April Bosshard 12/21/25 April Bosshard 12/21/25

🕯️Light in the Dark: Solstice Blessings + Poetry 🌟

“We must risk delight,” says Jack Gilbert in his poem, A Brief for the Defense, a poem that explores the paradox of the human condition, with its balance of light and dark, sorrow and joy.

April Bosshard 3/31/24 April Bosshard 3/31/24

Darkness, death, light, and life. 🌓 And writing.

In Nature, we observe birth, growth, decay, and death all around us, including in each other and ourselves. Nature reminds us we are each part of a great natural cycle that balances life with death and light with darkness. This cycle seems neutral, yet we humans have come to associate the light with life and the dark with death.

character • character development • conflict • courage • creativity • drafting • goals • gratitude • inspiration • motivation • outlining • productivity • readers • resistance • revision • scenes • story • structure • success • talent • time • travel • uncertainty • writing process