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Find Your Tribe

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I’ve heard it said that it’s important to find your people — that place you belong where your talents are celebrated, and your quirks embraced.  Where you can unapologetically be yourself.  Where being a misnomer – finding the who.  The place doesn’t matter, it’s the people there that make up the tribe.

It took me so long time 0to find my tribe.  To find my purpose.  To find my calling.

I am a writer.  My brother and sister writers are my people.  For once, I feel like I don’t have to explain myself.  I can just be. 

I can breathe easy.

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The Black Panther Needs to Sprawl

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A year ago, I had the privilege of being published in Hippocampus Magazine’s Writing Life Column. The following is the editor’s note about my essay:

Editor’s Note: Connie Kinsey’s essay is ekphrastic. It’s a vivid description of a work of art, its meaning expanded through her imagining. The art is the painting La Panthère Noire des Buttes-Chaumont, (The Black Panther of Buttes-Chaumont) by artist Kinga Katanics. Parc des Buttes-Chaumont is a Paris park.

You can read the essay here.

Power of the Prompt: Provoked to Write workshop

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Connie Kinsey is a former military brat who has put down deep roots in a converted barn on a dirt road at the top of a hill in West Virginia.  She lives with two dogs and a cat and is pursuing happiness, one cup of coffee at a time.  Her award-winning writing has been published online and in print.  She is also a spoken word artist and the Writer-in-Residence for the Museum of the American Military Family.  Connie has blogged at https://wvfurandroot.com since 2008 and is wild about comments.  You can reach her by email at c_kinsey@frontier.com.