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Finding the We in Them, the Us in You

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Wising Up

ABOUT OUR PRESS

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Writers Collective

Philosophy & Writers

Bookstore

Second Saturdays

Library: Anthologies A-F

The Art of the Anthology

ADULT CHILDREN

COMPLEX ALLEGIANCES

CONNECTED

CREATIVITY & CONSTRAINT

CROSSING CLASS

DARING TO REPAIR

DOUBLE LIVES

FAMILIES

FLIP SIDES

Library: Anthologies G-Z

GOODNESS

ILLNESS & GRACE

KINDNESS OF STRANGERS

LOVE AFTER 70

RE-CREATING COMMON CHORD

SHIFTING BALANCE SHEETS

SIBLINGS

SURPRISED BY JOY

VIEW BED: VIEW BEDSIDE

Library: Fiction

GERMS OF TRUTH

HEARTS AS BIG AS FISTS

LIVE YOUR LIFE

MY NAME IS YOUR NAME

NOT NATIVE

ONLY BEAUTIFUL

PHIL TRANS MARIA

SOMETHING LIKE HOPE

TRUCKER RHAPSODY

VISIBLE SIGNS

Library: Non-Fiction

BIDEN & IMMIGRATION

GOD SPEAKS MY LANGUAGE

GREEN CARD

JOURNEYS-THOUSAND HEROES

KEYS TO THE KINGDOM

LAST FLIGHT OUT

SHARING BURDEN OF REPAIR

2020 Immigration Debate

Library: Poetry

BREATHING IN PORTUGUESE

EPIPHANIES

HYMN THAT MEANDERS

LITTLE BOOK OF LIVING

SANCTITY OF THE MOMENT

SOURCE NOTES

Web Anthologies

Longer Than Expected

ColdShoulderSteadyingGaze

Naturalized Citizenship

Weight of Felony

Participants

Wising Up Gallery

Inclusion & Belonging

Resilience & Families

Creativity

Illness & Meaning

About Us



SECOND SATURDAYS
Wising Up Zoom Discussion Groups

Wisdom: The quality of having experience, knowledge, good judgment 

Wising Up: Easier Said Than Done, Easiest Done Together





SECOND SATURDAYS
WISING UP ZOOM DISCUSSION GROUPS
4-5:30 pm EST

Come join us!

Wisdom: The quality of having experience, knowledge, good judgment 
Wising Up: Easier Said Than Done, Easiest Done Together

SECOND SATURDAYS Wising Up Zoom Discussion Groups: Each month we will focus on a specific Wising Up Anthology and discuss selected readings from it. People are invited to attend any, or all, of the sessions they find of interest—and to bring a friend. 

Having published our seventeenth Wising Up Anthology, we thought it would be interesting to develop a network of readers across the country who would enjoy exploring together, in real time, some of the major themes we focus on in our anthologies: psychological and social resilience, social justice, immigration and belonging, pluralism in families, illness and meaning, creative aging.

We have conducted several successful discussions so far and think it would be rewarding to make them a regular feature of the press. Participants leave enlivened, having met new people, gained new insights in ways they wouldn't otherwise.       

About Wising Up Press
: We chose the name for our press because we're truly interested in wisdom—what it is, what happens in us and between us when we claim it as a goal. Our use of the continuous progressive present tense verb form—wising—reflects our understanding of wisdom as a process, one that is more easily and more richly done in company.

How does our sense of community shift when we take, for a brief while, a musing, reflective stance—even with very charged subjects? One where we seek to understand rather than persuade, to identify with rather than distinguish ourselves from? One where we realize that we are all, with all our differences, equally responsible for finding what unites us? 

TO SIGN UP AND RECEIVE A ZOOM INVITE:  secondsaturdays@universaltable.org 

            Please indicate which sessions you would like to attend. You can sign up for more than one.           

        Supply chains are a challenge in publishing right now. In order to receive books in time to read them before the session, try to order your book at least three weeks in advance. Our books are available from most internet booksellers. If bought from our bookstore for this purpose, books are $12, including tax and shipping. Electronic versions of the anthologies can be purchased directly from Amazon or Apple for $5 and are available immediately. There is no charge for the groups themselves.

            If you want to buy from our bookstore, include your mailing address and phone number and the titles you want to buy and we will send you an electronic invoice you can pay through PayPal, credit card, or by check.



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SECOND SATURDAYS
CALENDAR

 4:00-5:30 pm EST

2022 

Saturday, January 8   
SURPRISED BY JOY

Saturday, February 12 
SHIFTING BALANCE SHEETS: 
Women's Stories of Naturalized Citizenship & Cultural Attachment

Saturday, April 9   
FLIP SIDES: 
Truth, Fair Play & Other Myths We Live By: Spot Cleaning Our Dirty Laundry

Saturday, May 14
RE-CREATING OUR COMMON CHORD

Saturday, June 11
CREATIVITY & CONSTRAINT

Saturday, July 9
CROSSING CLASS: The Invisible Wall

Saturday, August 13 
DOUBLE LIVES, REINVENTION & THOSE WE LEAVE BEHIND

Saturday, September 10 
COMPLEX ALLEGIANCES: 
Constellations of Immigration, Citizenship & Belonging

Saturday, October 8
DARING TO REPAIR: What Is It, Who Does It & Why?

Saturday, November 12 
LOVE AFTER 70

Saturday, December 10 
GOODNESS


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