One thing I enjoy about my community is that people become still when they listen to your words. Casually sprawled in chairs, walking briskly down Main Street, hands holding coffee in recycled cups, writing or sketching, the wine-lovers, college students, and Christ-Followers are deeply mature and artistic.
Like the Italian proverb about a baker who sold the smell of his bread to a beggar for the sound of a coin on the sidewalk, the atmosphere of wealthy intellect is intoxicating. I can't stop writing. There are people here who want to pour out their own words, too.
For this reason, Kyle Rutley and I have started a constructive writing group called Break Out with the knowledge, support, and resources of college teachers who are also passionate over the rearrangement of words that already exist within each individual.
Kyle Rutley is a photographer who studies medicine and is writing a modern textbook called A Case For Masculinity.
