Today Adrienne introduced her "Mindfulness with the Support of Breath" practice , introducing it with this some quotes from Sylvia Boorstein:
"Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it."
"Don't just do something, sit there!"
Bev took inspiration from John Bradburne's poem:
Discretion
I grappled with the Trinity
Till Saint Augustine said,
"You'd better stop, God's Mystery
Is bigger than man's head!"
Hugging the doctor's good advice
With a mug of tea was very nice.
and from two other poems found handwritten in her second hand copy of Kenneth's anthology "Wild Horses".
and
Finally, a writing prompt from the poem "River" by Kenneth Steven
the writing prompt was:
three days and nights it rained
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And now for some of
YOUR WRITING:
We are still waiting for some contributions to add here but here is one that Bev wrote this week; it had a lot to do with the planning of the session today:
Shawl
by Bev Schofield
seek not sense
but let it land as weft and warp
on the loom of life
the wider your eyes to worldly wonder
the brighter the thread
the kinder your heart on your daily tread
the warmer the shawl you weave
to draw about you
in the chill of discontent
