Jumping in the Wheelbarrow!

Or joining the bandwagon

Welcome to Cathy Warner Creative, my new monthly-ish newsletter housed on Substack! I’m following the lead of so many writers and creative folks I know and respect to this space that encourages cross-pollination of ideas and community building. For those of you who have already subscribed to my newsletter through my website or because we’re friends or family, I’ve transferred your email address here — and I appreciate your patience if you’re receiving emails asking you to subscribe.

I’ve transferred my old newsletters here, too, so if you’re a new-ish subscriber, you can check out past issues. My previous blogposts are still housed on my website cathywarner.com, but new posts there will be available here, too.

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I’ve been freeing trees that have been suffocated by blackberries and ivy in my yard this month and have been binge-borrowing audiobook memoirs from my library, most of them about trauma and healing, and our journeys toward healing and forgiveness. Here are my favorites among them:

•All the Beauty in the World: the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley, who worked there as a security guard, read by the author who so clearly loves art and his time there.

•What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo, read by the author.

•Spare by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex. Read by the author.

•Finding Me written and read by Viola Davis. Winner of the 2023 Grammy for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording, and Audie winner of Audiobook of the Year.

•You Could Make This Place Beautiful: a Memoir, written and read by Maggie Smith (the American).

•All My Knotted-Up Life, written and read by Beth Moore of Bible study fame.

I’ll sign off with this photo from my yard and a poem to accompanying it.

In this garden
I did not plant
and do not sow
wild roses riot
and green things sing
extending fragrant
invitations to linger
amid the rumpus

~ Cathy

p.s. the wheelbarrow photo was taken at the first project house my husband and I built in Poulsbo, WA back in April 2015.