Tranquility du Jour #474: Stories for my Sister
Tranquility du Jour
Kimberly Wilson
4.6 • 554 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
bringing you tranquility since 2005
TDJ is a series of nourishing conversations about living a full and meaningful life with doses of tranquility.
In this week's edition of Tranquility du Jour, I chat with returning guest Elizabeth Duvivier. Learn her process for writing this intimate exploration into the lives of two sisters and their mother, and all of the relationships intertwined. Psst, and there's a book giveaway!
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Planning 2020 TDJ Style: December 29
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New Year's Eve Mini Retreat: December 31 at YogaWorks Dupont in Washington, DC
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Featured Guest
Elizabeth Duvivier has been a writer all her life and a teacher since she was 19 years old.
She studied at Swarthmore College, Lawrence University, la Sorbonne (Université de Paris), Bread Loaf and The French School (Middlebury College). Elizabeth has taught English & French Literature, Creative & Expository Writing in a wide range of settings: Lyceé Lavoiser (Paris, France); Buxton School (Williamstown, MA); Berlitz (Boston, MA); Holderness School (Holderness,NH); and the New Hampshire Institute of Art (Manchester, NH). Over the past few years, she has offered classes in writing and myth at Squam Art Workshops, a creative community that she founded in 2008.
She makes her home in Providence, RI with her dog, Remy.
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Previous podcasts with Elizabeth: #413 Transitions and #215 Creative Living
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, this is Kimberly Wilson, and welcome to the 474th edition of Tranquility D'Jour, bringing you |
| 0:13.5 | tranquility since 2005. |
| 0:17.5 | Tranquility D'Jure is a series of nourishing conversations about living a full and meaningful life |
| 0:22.6 | with doses of tranquility. And considering how challenging December can be holiday time, |
| 0:29.7 | I wanted to bring you episodes each week this month. So in this week's edition of Tranquility |
| 0:35.3 | DeJure, I chat with returning guests, Elizabeth |
| 0:38.3 | Du Vivier. Learn her process for writing this intimate exploration into the lives of two sisters |
| 0:44.8 | and their mother and all of the relationships intertwined. And listen towards the end, there is a |
| 0:52.5 | giveaway of this amazing book. Now, those of you who might |
| 0:56.5 | be new to Tranquility DeJure, there is a link in the show notes, which can be found at |
| 1:00.6 | Kimberlywilson.com slash 474, where you can learn more about the community and a big, big welcome. |
| 1:08.9 | A few things that we have coming up. |
| 1:11.4 | December 29th, which is a Sunday, I am hosting a one-hour free online event via |
| 1:17.9 | YouTube live called Planning 2020 TDJ Style. |
| 1:22.8 | Now, this is for anyone who has purchased Year of Tranquility, my latest book, and or the Tranquility |
| 1:29.4 | Dejure Day Book, and registered for their bonuses. Now, this can be found links to these in the show |
| 1:36.8 | notes and would love to have you with us. You'll get a private invite sent mid-December and, of course, |
| 1:42.5 | reminders. So no worries if you don't have the book yet, |
| 1:47.1 | go ahead and grab it. And PDFs definitely count. Also on December 31st, New Year's Eve, |
| 1:54.0 | I'm hosting a New Year's Eve mini retreat from two to five at Yoga Works, DuPont in Washington, D.C. |
| 2:01.9 | Also, on January 5th, that is our next free one-hour event that is the seasonal offering |
| 2:09.7 | that I have done for years, and it's online via YouTube Live and private link is sent upon |
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