Adrienne's mindfulness practice with Awareness of Sound and Body is a new one that is yet to be added to the online collection. She introduced it with a perfect poem from Dorothy Hunt: Too Long.
Before writing the group explored a strange new (to us) word that has crept into social media:
hiraeth
/ˈhɪərʌɪθ/
noun
- (especially in the context of Wales or Welsh culture) deep longing for something, especially one's home."I could not begin to put into words the hiraeth that the Welsh feel for the mountains and valleys of their homeland"
Bev introduced the writing session with her own poem below, using the writing prompt
slide through me
Resolution
by Bev Schofield
Make no resolutions.
Do not even make the resolution
to make no resolutions.
Step into each minute wet, naked, newborn
stripped of expectation
empty of judgement.
Place a wobbling foot forward
and simply explore
the weight of your body
on that foot
in that moment
among this world.
Then, once the wind and light
have woven this world
about your existence,
have made a you-shaped space
in which to be,
spare a prayer for when
you’ll not be here; for all the other
hearts that did beat,
but then became thin air.
Breathe in. Let time slide through you
like a wind through a wood.
Feel it. Be tree and breeze.
Sway till you still. And then,
only then,
take another step.
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And now for some of
YOUR WRITING:
... let's be having it!
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Thanks to you all ...
... for your heartening feedback as always!
Kath: Kay, wonderful
Kath: lose myself in smiling, lovely
Rachel: beautiful
Kath: thank you for sharing, Caroline
Rachel: lovely, thank you. x
Rachel: she is a star! and mine:)
Kath: I quite agree, Jo Beth
Rachel: still pondering!
Kay: such a generous sharing today thankyou everyone kx
Karen: Magical morning, thankyou everyone 💖
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).