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Though our foray into creating our own blog/literary un-conference - WoolfCamp - was two weeks ago, all of us who participated continue to glow with "camp memories".
One particularly lovely camp memory was spending time with the extraordinary Sarah Dopp, of Sarah Says. After sharing the weekend with Sarah, I caught up with her blog and discovered that her bio, as compared with her real life self, was a mere and modest glimpse of this energetic, multi-faceted, and vastly intelligent young woman:
Sarah Dopp is a writer, web developer, Chinese language enthusiast, and avid do-it-yourselfer ...Sarah is also a student in the Technical & Professional Writing program at San Francisco State University.
What Sarah does not mention is that she is a supreme tech geek, an articulate presenter and teacher and socially agile. She is also a self-described "recovering slam poet", and wrote about sharing this talent at WoolfCamp:
I performed two memorized slam pieces last night, in a candlelit impromptu poetry reading. The classic manifesto piece about what we put into our bodies, and the intense drumming piece about the woman dancing. The reception was wonderful -- and it launched me into another hour of lamenting my unconscious decision to stop writing. It's been years since I took poetry seriously. And yet, I still have these pieces memorized. It's a constant internal battle, so it must mean something to me.
Indeed, Sarah's performance meant something to all of us, and we hope she will treat us to the occasional slam poetry performance. (Maybe at BlogHer? How about it, Sarah?)
But there's other great stuff going on in Sarah's world. For example, in a recent post, Sarah offers this extraordinary idea, The Collaboration Adventure:
The Concept
A road trip around the United States (and perhaps parts of Mexico and Canada) with a group of driven, creative people who want to discover more options for their lives.Our Goal
To shake ourselves free of the daily-life rat-race bubble and by detaching, develop a clearer perspective of where we want to fall into the system. To see how everyone else is living these days. To talk to people. Lots of people. To write down those peoples' stories. To have brainstorming sessions on mountain tops, in corn fields, and on city streets. To document the adventure and share it with others (there will be much blogging!). To collect more like-minded folk. To volunteer. To give ourselves to the communities around us. To scheme and dream and inspire each other and write it all down. To eventually re-emerge into society as a more focused, aware, and empowered group of people who know what they want out of life.
Who wants to join Sarah? I do! I do! Alas, I wish, I wish.
But, this is a serious proposition, and Sarah is seeking like minded folks to join her. Interested? Be adventurous, leave a comment!
Be assured, Sarah's bright and inspired presence comes highly recommended, indeed, by all of us who had the privilege and honor to meet her at WoolfCamp.
