Words connect us to worlds within and without. This workshop explores how writing can open eyes, massage hearts, and awaken minds. A few exercises can bring us into a more intimate relationship with our own lives and the life around us. Gary Gach has taught haiku around the Bay Area, including at Book Passage for nearly a decade. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, City Lights Review, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, The Nation, and The New Yorker. His books include Writers.net and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Buddhism (new ed.).