Wake Lloire

Oct 29, 2024 | amandaearl.substack.com | Amanda Earl |Wake Lloire

Image description: I am wearing a pink crochet poncho with fringes . My arms are spread out like wings. Chairs are beside and behind me. I am outside. It is night. Light comes from a streetlight not pictured, to the left. Today I had the pleasure of the first TWUC mentorship meeting with a poet who applied to have me mentor her. It was a delight. I have wanted to do this program for years, but nobody ever took me up on it. This year 3 writers asked. I am super grateful that it's happening.

Oct 15, 2024 | amandaearl.substack.com | Amanda Earl |Wake Lloire |Jeannine Ouellette |Suleika Jaouad

I am grateful for the energy I have in the mornings and my ability to take naps in the afternoons. My brain wakes up about 4 or 5 in the morning and I swear I’m in a different time zone. I’d love to go out and meet someone early for coffee, but there’s no place here open at that time. I am restless in the mornings, often reading or writing between 4 to 7 am until it’s time to get moving. Then between about noon to 2pm I am completely toast. I can do nothing. Sometimes that goes into about 5pm.

Aug 31, 2024 | amandaearl.substack.com | Amanda Earl |Jeannine Ouellette |Wake Lloire

Image description: orange flower (scanned). Dear darling readers,The sun is slanting toward autumn. For those who live in the same hemisphere as me, do you feel it? Are you happy about this change? It comes with mixed emotions for me, but overall, I love autumn, the time of my birth, my wedding to Charles and the feeling of a new year, thanks to years of being in school.