Friday, October 22, 2021

COP26 Mindfulness & Writing






































Lapidus Scotland invites you to a session of 

Mindfulness & Writing for COP26

with Adrienne Hannah and Bev Schofield









Monday 1st November 2021 ~ 1900-2100

Admission free or by donation to Lapidus Scotland via eventbrite

Session included
  • timed writing
  • mindfulness practice
  • guest speakers:   Margaret Bremner and Dominique Bachelet*
  • written contributions to be posted on this page (via zoom chat)
readbevs@gmail.com 
is the contact for any queries and participants are invited to send a single line or sentence of inspirational writing to be posted on this blog page

*Dominique Bachelet is an ecologist with 40 years of combined education and work experience in the USA. Her research has focused on global climate change impacts since 1989 and she has been involved in several IPCC reports since 1995. She contributed to the development of the first dynamic global vegetation model (MC1) that included a prognostic fire model. For a decade she worked in the NGO world focusing on climate change science information delivery and communication. In 2017 she was elected AAAS fellow in recognition of her climate change science contribution. She is also a member of the Oregon Watercolor Society, of the exhibition committee at the Corvallis Arts Center, and the VP of the Corvallis Art Guild.

This video says it all...

Somos Todes video shared by Margaret Bremner









Your inspiration and writing:

"You don't need to have hope to act; action gives you hope" Greta Thunberg

thanks Karen for William Blake:
"To see a world in a grain of sand." 

thanks Kath for Lindsay McLaughlin:
"The many species of plant, insect and animal life are moving and breathing, eating and excreting, emerging and dying, all part of the web of life which holds us and every being, an immense compass of wordless wisdom, a thousand teachers and guides waiting for our attention."

thanks Amy for David Whyte:
“the temptation is to turn away, but one of the great central invitations of poetry is that this doorway of difficulty, this vulnerability, this access of heartbreak is exactly the road that you have been invited along. And you don't get to start from anywhere except this place of collective sorrow" 


I listen to what you say (by Sheila Buchanan)

I will listen to what you say
As the river of lava slows
and takes my dreams away
It is my privilege to listen to the harmony of protest

We will share the elements As we swim and drown in the future
As nature takes my hand
As grief becomes reality in the pursuit of progress
I will listen to what you say.


from Kath Higgens

Nature is coming with us.
I will listen to what she says.
She wants to sing, to be free,
she wants to be clean
and she wants to teach us.
She wants to breathe,
she wants to run,
she wants to flow with the current,
to soar with the wind,
to dance in the thermals,
and skate on the ice.
She wants to rise like the mountains
and bloom with every kind of wild flower
                                           on the slopes.
She wants to ice up,
she wants to thaw,
she wants monsoon and desert heat,
she wants moonlight and shooting stars.
She wants to be
all she is meant to be.
Nature is coming with us.
May we listen to what she says.

Amen!

from Kay Ritchie:
We worry how Greta seems more fragile than the planet she is desperate to save.
How brave she is while leaders blah blah blah.  We notice crocus, confused & 
out of time.  The climate change right here before our eyes as forests die, 
oceans warm & wildfires, floods & droughts are commonplace.

Let’s talk:
recognition
exploitation
reparation
compensation
negotiation
co-operation
new legislation 
extermination
food transportation
evacuation
deforestation
third world starvation
carbon emission
positive action
green hydrogenation
top soil erosion
ocean expansion
desertification
diversification
growing population
aviation pollution
animal extinction
chemical reduction 
habitat destruction
meat and dairy consumption
atoning for our actions
car electrification
ocean acidification
alternative transportation
de-industrialisation
rain fall  
rock fall
dry soil
coral  
global
denial
gas  coal   oil 
cocoa   soy    palm-oil
the future of our children
the future of our planet
the rising   the burning   the melting
the now
let’s talk              

from Val Lake:
I will listen to what you say
as long as you  want to say it
but know that not everything I hear
will sit comfortably.
I might recognize assumptions.
There may be truths we skirt around and cannot face.
There may be head-on collision of beliefs
leaving us both in pieces, shattered
as we grope for what is true,
what is assumed,
what is denied.
We have to be lost in the forest
before we can wait for dawn
and scan the landscape for hope, truth and the way out.           

Talk to Grief by Sheila Buchanan

The climate change has become the winter of discontent
Prepare to grab the positive vibes
And connect with our warriors
Grieve for the lost lands, icebergs and glaciers
As we step into the car and drive.

Prepare for our winter of deserts
and grab love as we do
Don’t let our heart grow cold
Or our body shake and shiver.

Open your heart and welcome glad news to the fore
Share your pain and shock and ache
We will never get over the loss
But we can be whole
As grief is love lost.


More gems in the session Chat:

Giovanna MacKenna: Thank you!
Giovanna MacKenna: Margaret - Your singing gave me goosebumps, and hope. As did your exploration of creative ways to protest, which I’ve never considered before.
Joyce Nicholson: thank you Margaret what  inspirational words and song  xxx love to you both
Bev Schofield: I will listen to what you say
Lisa Rossetti: Thanks so much. A lovely event. Wrote in a strong and direct way.
kay ritchie: belated thankyou to Margaret   loved your singing
Catrice Greer: My niece said thank you for the lovely invite.  She found this inspiring. She regretfully, needed to leave to go attend to something at work. 🌿🌷🌿
kay ritchie: and thanks bev
Sheila Buchanan: Would love to hear what everyone wrote.  Will it go on the blog
Kath Higgens: Thank you, that was so inspiring.
Kath Higgens: Yes, I agree with Sheila, is there somewhere we can share our contributions?
Bev Schofield: Put them in here Kath
elaine kingett: And I live in an IKEA showroom in Sevilla!
Dr Jessica Clapham: Thanks :)

Barbara Bloomfield: I will listen to what you say even though i be distracted by sights and noises and the colours of distraction. My Glasgow daughter, Liv Glatt, says: “Mum, i love the land first and best.” And i can see that, I see it when she sighs in a green, woody glade of trees and her shoulders exhale. And when she nurtures her wee woolly willow saplings for planting at Trees for Life in the Cairngorms. My eyes prick with tears when she says “I love the land.”

Catrice Greer: How Lovely, Barbara! “And when she nurtures her wee woolly willow saplings for planting at Trees for Life in the Cairngorms. My eyes prick with tears when she says “I love the land.”
kay ritchie: thankyou Adrienne  x
Joyce Nicholson: thank you Adrienne xxx
Barbara Bloomfield: Thank you so much, Adrienne
Giovanna MacKenna: Wonderful Adrienne, thank you
Karen Forbes: That was truly amazing. Thankyou Adrienne x
Dr Jessica Clapham: Thank you Adrienne

kay ritchie: wonderful   thankyou
Giovanna MacKenna: Dominique, that was truly wonderful and informative, thank you
Frances Ainslie: loved the words &  singing x
Barbara Bloomfield: That was really uplifting. Thank you so much
Catrice Greer: Dominique,  thank you for a lovely presentation.
Joyce Nicholson: thankyou Dominique for the hope xxx
Frances Ainslie: the art behind dominique is marvellous …
Sheila Buchanan: Thanks so much all x

Frances Ainslie: we sometimes feel we are too small to make a difference … but together we can be small and mighty
kay ritchie: beautiful and very powerful   thanks
Frances Ainslie: beautiful
Dr Jessica Clapham: Very inspiring thank you
Karen Forbes: So evocative
elaine kingett: I’m sorry I have to leave but thanks you all so much - gracias from Sevilla!
Rob McGuire: a powerful piece. such movement in it.
Frances Ainslie: after 40 years Dominique, in ecology .. what keeps you most hopeful?
Barbara Bloomfield: Dominique, why are we humans so slow to change our habits?
Sheila Buchanan: Thanks Dominique for hope and positivity peace and kindness x

Dr Jessica Clapham: “Ask Me” by William Stafford R.T. Smith
Some time when the river is ice ask me
mistakes I have made.  Ask me whether
what I have done is my life.  Others
have come in their slow way into
my thought, and some have tried to help
or to hurt: ask me what difference
their strongest love or hate has made.

I will listen to what you say.
You and I can turn and look
at the silent river and wait.  We know
the current is there, hidden; and there
are comings and goings from miles away
that hold the stillness exactly before us. 
What the river says, that is what I say.

Dr Jessica Clapham: Thanks for such an uplifting evening Jessica
lorna hill: Huge thanks what a wonderful session!
Giovanna MacKenna: A great evening leaving me with hope and lots to consider, thank you all
Karen Forbes: Massive thankyou- this has been so moving. X
Frances Ainslie: thank you Dominique & Margaret, Bev & Adrienne x
Odette van Rensburg: Thank you and how awesome to see Isabel, I hope we can make some positive change that she will see in her lifetime
Barbara Bloomfield: Thank you to Bev Adrienne and Rob and speakers
Isabel Gardner: Thank you guys, you really made me think into the deeper perspective.

Rob McGuire: i will listen to what you say when you speak with your atmospheric pressures and gasps of displeasure the quakes and shudders of a system losing balance the heat, the floods the earth rising in defence meeting us in violence showing us who carries whom i will listen to what you say when you shout in tears and tell me of the heartbreak and the ways you are disgraced all the ways in which we've hurt you in your invincibility

Jo Gray: Thanks so much

Isabel Gardner (11yrs): Hear me as I speak to you,
As we close our eyes and wonder what it would be like if our extraordinary Earth was at peace,
If all of the streams would forever flow,
If all of the plants would forever thrive with ease,
If all of the animals would grow harmoniously alongside each other,
That wish is yet still far in the misty, distant future,
Hear me as I speak to you,
May your mysteries be unsolved,
May your challenges be overcome,
Hear me as I speak to you,
May you long be at peace on your glorious Earth.

Jane Walker: The madness is beginning in Glasgow today Cop 24 Cops in streets Cops in cars Guns on show Big shots Protesters Cruise Ships Helicopters chaos But we arise early manage the diversions and drive drive to Fort William in darkness and rain cooried behind a huge lorry who guides and lights the way saves us diesel driving at 50 all the way Then morning lights the water streaming it’s way like a beacon to the railway All aboard. The whistle signals departure the clickity clack begins Then after the delights of hills in autumn colours smoke fills the window like a ghostly blanket. Looks are exchanged faces fall perhaps we think of climate Of multi national smoke then the wind embraces the day wipes the window clean Harry Potter has weaved his magic as we slip almost unnoticed across the famous Glenfinnan Viaduct . Those outside in the muddy bogs and grass wait wait for just one glimpse of those honoured inside the train being transported to Mallaig. They stand in groups or alone cameras in hand. some wave to the old red train Smoke bellows like a peace pipe Yet there they wait for just one wave from one of us Unspoken words of loving kindness are sent with the wind and the smoke to the hills to the people watching us while we watch them Perhaps they’re waiting Waiting As my eyes search for souls standing on those hills yet untouched by fracking My silent words reach out to visitors to locals photographers indigenous peoples protesters children here on our Scottish Hills and back down there in Glasgow perhaps standing in the cold in the rain waiting for just one magic moment “I will listen to what you say” My heart speaks out to all From Janie Walker

Lorna Hill: I Will Listen to What You Say

I Will Listen to What You Say

I will listen to what you say
Don't ever lose hope
Write a letter, send a tweet
Our words can really help

Don't ever lose hope
Change is always with us
Our words can really help
May our minds be at ease

Change is always with us
Rejoice in nature
May our minds be at ease
Reflect and pause

Change is always with us
Write a letter, send a tweet
Reflect and pause
I will listen to what you say


Who to listen to? (thanks to Isabel Park)
Who to listen to? The ‘experts’? The scientists? The politicians? No. Only to my heart, to the hearts of other ordinary people, to the hearts of the trees, the oceans, the earth. For all these hearts make up one huge beating heart, the heart that beats for all of us, in all of us. We are all one. And we know what is right, what keeps that heart alive and beating. We must not be distracted by words. We know the truth of the beat of that heart, and we must learn to listen, to trust. It’s hard; there are everyday distractions. The heartbeat may sometimes sound faint, far away, but if we let ourselves be still, be quiet, we hear it again - beating, beating - and we know we can let go and trust, and do the right thing.

Hope (thanks Joyce Nicholson)

I hope you can hear the cries of our mother dying, choking and suffocated by the quenchless thirst of toxic greed,
I hope you listen to the lessons of deep deep interconnection and interrelatedness throughout and within Gaia,
I hope you hear the voices of rage, of grief, of hurt and despair as our mother tries to rebalance and survive,
I hope your heart feels the metta we send for the earth, air and oceans, for all life, pulsing for healing and change,
I listen to your empty words, and promises yet to be broken and know that we can all, in communities across this wonderful earth, make differences in multiplicities of ways each day,
I hope our creativity sustains us and our mother in turning the tide of chaos,
I have hope in our seed bombing, puppet making, placard crafting, in the beat of the drum, in laying down in roads, in singing and meditating, in silent protest and well wishing, in quiet tree planting and brave acts of resistance, in all our collective non violent endeavours
for peace and justice for our shared earth. 

Barbara Bloomfield: That was a wonderful event last night. So many thanks for making it happen.  I’m constantly trying to get my glasgow daughter, Liv Glatt, involved in your schoolhouse.  She is currently helping to host the La Minga indigenous delegation at COP26, 80 people in total. www.mingaindigena.org
She works for Urban Roots and Trees for Life and runs groups in forests/rural settings with and for young people, women and adults generally. 

Send us your thought...


 

MaW session 30th October 2021


Adrienne led a Loving Kindness practice today, introducing it with the poem
"What can be said about love?” by Dorothy Hunt
 Bev used a writing prompt inspired by the poem “Talking to Grief” by Denise Levertov:


preparing a winter place for my grief

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And now for some of 

YOUR WRITING:

Special online appearance by our resident Storyteller Lesley O'Brien can be seen here on 

After Adrienne's poem -
by Kath Higgens

I long to be the love that transforms.
Let there be love -
kidneys love, liver love,
muscles love, sinews love,
shoulders love, jaw love!
Be still, and know that I am love.
Love myself,
and be my own best friend.
Love those around me,
and know myself cherished.
I long to be the love that transforms.

After Bev's poem -
by Kath Higgens

Grief - how can I welcome you?
I am so tired of the cold you bring,
the frozen fingers, the chattering teeth.
Having to wear layer upon layer to ward off your sting,
sometimes finding it impossible to regain warmth.
What can I do?
Is it within me to open my arms wide
to the winter that comes regardless?
Can I learn to wrap myself up warm and snug,
to  light a crackling fire,
to turn to a cosiness as yet unfelt, unfound?
I struggle to give you house-room.
I struggle to have you under my roof.
Oh, winter, I would that you were not.
Enough, enough.

Preparing a winter place for my grief.


Breath & Love
by Sheila Buchanan

The breath sustains and completes the circle of love as we 
Breathe in, Breathe out
Feel the love that surrounds us
Ignore the vast emptiness of yearning

Love starts with self
It shines out and touches those we love
Let it flow and transform us
As the breath completes the circle of love.


Its almost a year since you prepared to leave us
by BonBon

Its almost a year since you left
Its the hardest goodbye I've ever said
But! How lucky I am to have held your hand and talked to you for all those hours 
 ….. that’s truly a gift I will never forget
How I cut your hair on your final weeks, as I've done for 40 years
I saved those final cuttings in a jar...……. as I knew I needed to keep a part of you here 
and now I’m searching for the perfect rose
I shall surround the roots with the cuttings ………. with YOU
I look forward to that time in the future to smile at your rose ……to smile at you

But for now, I'm content that for our first winter without you, I've already prepared a winter place for my grief …..


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Thanks to you all ...

... for your heartening feedback as always!

Catrice: Lesley O’Brien, was a guest last night on a The Poetry Corner, (a segment of FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE)  FNL is an online show broadcasting from Limerick Ireland). I am talent curator and producer (Catrice Greer).  Dave Morrissey is the show host and creator.  THE POETRY CORNER is the final segment that starts at 1:28:00 https://www.facebook.com/fridaynightliveshow/videos/462569718500082/
Kay: thankyou Adrienne   kx
Jo Beth: Thank you for a lovely mindful session. I have to leave now but hopefully see many of you on Monday evening. I am really looking forward to it.
Giovanna: That was gorgeous, thank you Adrienne ❤️
Catrice: So soothing!  Thank you!
Catrice: She is one of my favorites! - Denise Levertov!!!
Bev:  preparing a winter place for my grief
Angie: Sorry I need to go unexpectedly.  Everything is ok. Thanks again for a lovely session.  Have a wonderful weekend to all.  xx
Karen: Grief is love lost. Beautiful
Kate: Please could I have a copy of it Yvonne.
Karen: Sensational in every way
Giovanna: “she speaks for the mute, she wails for the lost”
Giovanna: I really wish I didn’t have to leave. This has been a very special sharing, hopefully I’ll be able to find the ones I miss on the blog? ❤️ Thanks so much everyone
Lesley: I need to go now, thanks again women for a wonderful Saturday morning! x
Kate: I’ve got to go. Thank you everybody for sharing: Adrienne for the beautiful loving kindness and Bev for the wonderful prompt. It has inspired me and I have plenty to work from. I am not reading mine today but I feel that Yvonne wrote one for me that she’s kindly said she will share. As I said to her, her poem isn’t simple, it’s fundamental and true. As is all of yours. See you next time. πŸ’›
Jo: Thanks, all, need to go. xx
Kay: another wonderful session   thanks to bev and Adrienne and everyone else    kx
Karen: Thankyou, a truly wonderful session xx

 
Thanks to funders
Lapidus Scotland gratefully acknowledges the support of Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership's "Wellbeing for Longer in Glasgow Fund" (managed by Impact Funding Partners).

MaW session 23rd October

 
Adrienne introduced her Breath practice with a reading of John O'Donohue's 
Bev took a writing prompt from the poem "Undeparted" by Sarah Reichert

here is where the pieces of myself are
or
here are the pieces of my heart



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And now for some of 

YOUR WRITING:

... waiting with bated breath...

but look at Amy's valiant plant above!


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Thanks to you all ...

... for your heartening feedback as always!

Karen: Brilliant, thank you x
Jan: Thanks so much Adrienne.
Kath: Thank you Adrienne. Would it be possible to read that wonderful passage again at the end
Kay: so good Adrienne   thanking you   kx
Giovanna: Wonderful Adrienne, I wish I could keep you in my pocket for emergency relief!
Adrienne: Thank you xx
Adrienne: Good idea Kath x
Sheila: Thank you Adrienne.  As I have to go now can your poem be put as a link on the blog.  I found I really connected with it. See everyone next week x
Kath: Great news, Giovanna!
Giovanna: Thanks Kath, we’re excited!
Catrice: Thank you everyone. See you next week!  Thank you Adrienne for a lovely mindfulness session.
Kate: Thank you Adrienne, just what I needed.
Bev: here is where the pieces of myself are
Bev: or
Bev: here are the pieces of my heart
Kath: Love it, and the expanding, Bex
Kath: Angie, so imaginative and resonate with not being OK!
Kath: To all Mums! love the stars
Giovanna: CONGRATULATIONS SANDRA!!!
Karen: Love nature images
Kath: sad for all those in exile
Kath: otherworldly energy, wow
Amy: ‘The hole that leaked a life’
Bonbon: Kate. Powerful and beautiful. xxx
Karen: Stunningly powerful and so vivid
Kath: Lovely, Sally!
Kath: crumble, stumble, love it!
Giovanna: Sorry all, I need to go now but this has been wonderful as always. Huge thanks to all x
Karen: One of our most delicious sessions to date. Thanks everyone xx
Jan: Thanks everyone. Brilliant. x
Kay: thankyou so much for a wonderful and emotional session  kx
Karen: ❤️
Kath: thank you so much Adrienne.
Bonbon: What an incredible morning - it has been a gift to listen to you all……..wishing you all a wonderful mindful weekend - much love xxx
Angie: Thank you.  xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Kath: Thanks everyone xx
Kate: Thank you Adrienne, Ben, everyone. Have a lovely week.
Lesley: wonderful, thanks everyone! xxx
Elaine: thanks,  that was a lovely session today, take care x

 
Thanks to funders
Lapidus Scotland gratefully acknowledges the support of Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership's "Wellbeing for Longer in Glasgow Fund" (managed by Impact Funding Partners).

Thursday, October 21, 2021

MaW session 16th October 2021


For our second session Adrienne led a Bodyscan practice, introducing it with that gentle poem by Danna Faulds, Settle into the here and now.


 Bev introduced the writing session with  ~ “To be great, be whole” by Fernando Pessoa (translated by Richard Zenith:

I shine bright when…


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And now for some of 

YOUR WRITING:

untitled
by Amy Brooke

All this posturing and pretending
Intellectualising the mystery
Reduced to siloed elements
Mechanically interacting.
Numbers, data, projections
All a guise of authority
In truth, mere assumptions and approximations.
We do not know, we do not know (dare we say it)
Hopelessness and despair
Frantically reacting, scrambling
‘Do something, all of you out there’, they say
‘Do something about this’
A shout into the void
And from somewhere, that little one inside,
She calls me here
In all our conceptualising and theorising,
She whispers,
We cannot feel
We cannot relate
We cannot be touched
By this moment.
In its enormity,
Our closed off hearts, small and defending.
Slow down
Settle
Into this breathing, beating body
This earth
Feel her
Deep holding presence
Come into the infinite expanse of the human heart
Reach out from that place
That can contain the pain of the world
And its joy too
Maybe from that humble and wild place
Of relation, of sensitivity, of sharing
We can meet each other,
And meet this moment.

Marble
by Elaine Richardson

I shine bright when I am unquarried 
beneath the earth, before the dynamite is set and the explosions splinter me. 

Marble is prized
It can be sculpted
It can be crushed
It can be ground

But somewhere, I still recall the intense brightness of the metamorphis that made me. 
It reminds me that I do not need to be sculpted or quarried. 

Background - metamorphic rocks such as marble are formed by intense pressure and heat. The pressure is so great the structure of the rock is changed into a new form. 




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Thanks to you all ...

... for your heartening feedback as always!

Giovanna: http://themuseumoflossandrenewal.life/individual-residencies-2021/
Giovanna: http://themuseumoflossandrenewal.life/residencies/
Rachel: beautifully said
Joyce: wonderful thank you xxx
Kay: just wonderful   just what I needed   thankyou  kx
Karen: Fabulous x
Jo: thanks Adrienne, I drifted into a place of great peace x
Sheila: Thanks aAdrienne for the most complete body scan I’ve ever done.  I am renewed πŸ‘
Jan: Thanks loads Adrienne
Adrienne: Thank you for the lovely feedback xx
Bev: I shine bright when…
Giovanna: I loved all of that Bex, and completely agree
Joyce: loved that bex  - wonderful xxx
Giovanna: And in so many other spaces Sheila, I’m witness to it
Giovanna: loved that line about truth Lesley, fantastic
Catrice: What a beautiful last line, Lesley.
Catrice: From that humble and wild place!
Catrice: Great line, Amy!
Giovanna: “a guise of authority” “maybe we can meet each other…” thank you Amy, I”d love to read this again
Joyce: wow amy  -  fantastic  - I would love to see that again ! x
Catrice: Well done Kay!
Angie: Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon.  It is about Mary Wollstencroft and her daughter Mary Shelley.
Giovanna: Still thinking about that mother’s ring Kay
Lesley: Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon  This book blew my mind at the trailblazing ways of Mary Shelley and her mother Mary Wolstonecraft
Giovanna: I loved the verbal magic Jo, and you’re last line
Giovanna: “small and hard and needed” “I must stop looking for that chaos”
Catrice: Unique and strong voice, Jan!
Giovanna: Gorgeous Joyce, thank you
Giovanna: “explosions splinter me” “the metamorphis that made me”
Karen: Love that last line πŸ’–
Giovanna: “I do not need to be sculpted or quarried”
Giovanna: Loved that generous journey through your days Karen
Karen: Thankyou x
Angie: lovely to spend a Saturday morning with you all.
Karen: Gorgeous 2 hours. ♥️
Joyce: leaving the session with my heart filled of love for you  all , thank you all you fabulous women  xxx
Giovanna: Thank you Bev, Adrienne and everyone, it’s always a pleasure to be here with you all
Catrice: Thank you, Bev and Adrienne. πŸ’š
Kay: thankyou once again for a wonderful session kx
Amy: Thanks so much everyone xx
Elaine: thanks everyone, take cake x
Jan: Thanks everyone
Bex: Thanks you all, a lovely session that has set me up for the rest of the day. Looking forward to seeing you nrxt week... 09:55:53 From  Rachel Mc  to  Lapidus 

 
Thanks to funders
Lapidus Scotland gratefully acknowledges the support of Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership's "Wellbeing for Longer in Glasgow Fund" (managed by Impact Funding Partners).

Friday, October 15, 2021

MaW session 9th October 2021


Our third course of the year started easily with Adrienne's Memories of Kindness mindfulness practice.

Bev introduced the writing session with  ~ “Working Together” by David Whyte from which we used the prompt

the true shape of my own self

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And now for some of 
YOUR WRITING:

Matryoshka
by Cath Hopkins

The true shape of myself,
Is hidden in the smallest Matryoshka doll.
Held in a space where I can not be seen,
and where I can be true to me,
the me that belongs to me.
Where there is no risk.
deep amongst the Matryoshka's.


Loch Lomond (acrostic)
by Lesley O'Brien

Lowland light shines
O
Charcoal hunters and the last
Howl of the 

Last wolf is witnessed by the cormorant perched on the highest branch of the tallest tree
On Honeymoon island and as
Munro meticulously counts the mountains 
Of Alba, Red Coats march in the shadows of Vikings and Romans, while
Neolithic New Stone Agers
Dance in the flames of Rob Roy’s cave as he couries in his hideaway and gives thanks to a land shaped by ice

True Shape
by Maggie Watson
                                                         A skein of sound across the sky 
                                      of shaped formation, sure intent
                   to reach this island sanctuary - 
these fields by shoreline. Journey’s end.
The call of wild geese prophesy,
                   their language high, half understood;
                                      yet true and kind to ear and eye. 
                                                         This sky is ours; this earth is good.  


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Thanks to you all ...

... for your heartening feedback as always!

Angie: I am glad that you decided to share that with us. Thank you.
Angie: "One's irreplaceable place in the dance of things". Wonderful Amy.
Karen: πŸ’•
Amy: Thanks Angie and Karen xx
Karen: Love the burst couch!
Lesley: Angie I loved that image of you as a pressed flower in a romantic novel! loved I!
Kath: Thank you all. Lovely to be back.
Sandra W: Such a wonderful sesh. Welcome all newbies. Loved all thee various pieces xxx
Kay: brilliant session  thanks to everyone  kx
Jan: Thanks everyone. Loved the writing.
Angie: Thank you to everyone. Have a most excellent weekend.
Amy: Thanks all :)
Karen: Thankyou, lovely 2 hours. Xx
Bex: Thanks everyone! See you next week x
Kate: Thank you Ben and Adrienne for hosting and to everybody here. I feel bolstered by the bonds of common humanity and its frailties we shared together here.
Kate: Bevelled!
Jo Beth: Thank you everyone. Its been wonderful to be part of the group.
Kate: Bev!
Lesley: Thanks Bev and Adrienne, another wonderful session! x
Elaine: Thank you! It has been lovely to join the group! x
Kate: i look forward to seeing you in two weeks, many thanks.

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Thanks to funders
Lapidus Scotland gratefully acknowledges the support of Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership's "Wellbeing for Longer in Glasgow Fund" (managed by Impact Funding Partners).