Welcome fall.
The kids troop back in to school. (Some reluctantly march away from the pool and sun and freedom, and others running with open arms to summer-lost friends, routines, and recess; mine were both.) A brisk chill overtook the sun’s swelter for the first time in months today. Apples. Pears. And pomegranates reddening on the trees outside my house. I love the season’s shift to new schedules, new weather, and new fruit.
I’m running in with open arms, and (finally!) a reason to wear a sweater.
With the newness in the air, we found it a fitting time for our own new launch at Segullah.. Since our past in print journals into our present and future publications online, Segullah has always featured artists, but now we add to that offering, and launch featured writers.
Much like the gifted visual artists we’ve showcased, we are hoping to promote gifted and prolific LDS women who write. The quarter-long spotlight, our resident writer’s words will adorn our space in an interview and thoughts on writing in the first month, a writing selection each month, and a guest post to come on the blog too.
Our hope is inspire our community of writers and promote the work of writers who inspire us.
(Also, welcome, welcome to our newest featured artist, Lynne Millar. Her interview will run here next month.)
I’m putting a big red check next to the first month already, because I’m so excited to share Meg Conley with you. So much goodness bottled up in the delightful interview, and an exquisite embrace of God as our Parents expressed in her first selection, The Love of God.
This month’s journal continues on the theme of parenting. In Faint Lines, Megan Goates examines the tenuous moments when she did not slip from consciousness, but might have written it in for fittingly dramatic moments in her motherhood. Poet Susan Thomas examines the shift of her daughter leaving the nest and the next one readying to take flight and her own shifting in Fledglings.
This parent is delighted that school is back in session. I hoping the new routines have so more room to inspire me to productivity and some good writing and maybe a bit of reading. There’s plenty here this month. Curl up in an cable-knit and rustle through these new selections. I hope you find them as cool as the coming wind and as savory as this new season.
Sandra Clark Jergensen
Segullah Co-Editor-in-Chief
Interview With Featured Writer Meg Conley
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