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At last we're back - Adrienne introduced the mindfulness session with the poem "I worried" by Mary Oliver and then moved into a gentle Mindfulness with the support of Breath practice.
Please remember you can access all of Adrienne's practices on the the link above.
Bev led writers into their timed writing with a prompt from "The story of a story" by Vasco Popa:
they said all sorts of things
Still looking for a link to share that one with you... more later as your pieces come in...
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And now for some of
YOUR WRITING:
Intoxication
by Kay Ritchie
(inspired by Mary Oliver’s I Worried & Vasco Popa’s The Story of a Story)
Paul, the volunteer, is on his knees
to tease the weeds from under lavender,
London pride & foxglove. We meander,
wonder at the poppies that explode onto
the path beside the iris and the lamb’s ears.
Paul points us to the pear tree,
tells us it is Scotland’s oldest &
each year so full of fruit
fermenting on each branch
that wasps are free
to guzzle till, chokeful, all boozy,
bawdy, birlin’, stoatin’, so that
as day sags west he has to pick
their precious-patterned-woolly-jumpered bodies
to let them sleep it off in compost-comfort
till, next morning,
still hung over,
they try to fly,
cantankerously,
singing into day.
They said all sorts of things
by Cap'n Bev
Songs, stories and people of my past
so selectively I store snippets like ribbons in a basket
that I roll and plait, weave into my very own remembrance of reality,
stitching sense into the fabric off my life
with no more factual reason turn a magpie's nest
that barely holds together its bottle tops and plastic wrappers.
What they said I hardly remember
and what they intended seems as remote to my comprehension
as the smallest planet in a far off galaxy.
I was not here
have yet to arrive...
how strange it is, this being alive.
Hilarious limerick from Denise and Jo
There was a young lady from Ryde
who ate some green apples and died.
The apples fermented inside the lamented
and made cider inside 'er inside.
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Thanks to you all ...
... for your heartening feedback as always!
Aileen: Falkland estate
Aileen: https://falklandestate.co.uk/
Aileen: http://www.pillars.co.uk/
Aileen: good to see everyone
Giovanna: Thank you Bev for saying such lovely things. ❤️
Giovanna: http://themuseumoflossandrenewal.life/publications-and-editions/
Giovanna: I meant to say at the beginning, welcome to the new faces!
Kay: thankyou beautiful to be back mindfully kx
Jo: Thanks Bev and Adrienne.
Giovanna: Adrienne - “allow your mind to rest here, to be anchored here with your body as it breathes" I will absolutely keep this with me, thank you
Jo: Adrienne, who was the author of that lovely poem, please
Karen: So lovely to be back amongst writing friends, welcome everyone 💖
Bev: Mary Oliver, Jo
Sheila: Thanks Adrienne for the physical rest from the active mind….x
Denise: Lovely to be here. Haven't done any mindfulness for ages. So good.
Angie: That's brilliant Cath. Well done. You will be great in that role. x
Giovanna: Huge congratulations Cath! 👏🏽
Lesley: Amazing well done Cath! x
Helen: Thank you Adrienne, so much permission and presence, really needed that
Cath: Thank you
Bev: they said all sorts of things
Giovanna: Bex - "when stories break apart” “the centre does not hold”
Giovanna: I'm going to need to leave a little early today at 11.30, sorry for anyone I miss. X
Giovanna: Doreen - “now I dance and sing in the garden of my heaven”
Giovanna: Jo - “all I've done is learn to describe and introduce" I'd love to read your work Jo, where can I find it?
Bev: VAsko Popa
Doreen: thanks
Giovanna: Angie - I loved the push and rhythm of this, I need to read it!
Giovanna: Sorry to leave this wonderful group, hoping to see you all next week.
Karen: I would read, but out of time.❤️
Doreen: Wow Jo (Beth)
Bex: sorry folks, I've got to go... thanks everybody
Sheila: Helen “tight garment of truth” 🙏
Susan: Thank you, all...each piece has been amazing...what a delightful couple of hours.
Kay: thankyou so much to everyone for a wonderful session great to be back x
Doreen: Is there someway we could come together to honour Sally on the blog someway?
Karen: God Bless, Sally 💖
Yvonne: RIP Sally ♥️
Yvonne: Thank you everyone for a wonderful morning xxx
Angie: Thank you for a wonderful morning. See you all again soon. 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).
