by admin | Mar 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
The tag on the shower puff read ‘This product is made from natural materials, imperfections may show with use’. Well indeed. Exactly that. From time to time we could all do with that label on. Reminding others, reminding ourselves. Remembering this is true...
by admin | Mar 18, 2022 | Poems for Healing
‘Ruins are not empty. They are sacred places full of presence'(John O’Donahue: Anam Cara). If we look we can see ruins everywhere. We see what is being brought to ruin right now. Impending ruin collects again. Adding to the ruins of our past. Rubble piling...
by admin | Mar 15, 2022 | Poems for Healing
the year we wished we could pack up banish into the loft or post off and discard to a distant land how to make sense of a time where the only gift was darkness the forest whispers ‘do nothing’ the next year will come will always, steadily, reliably wrap...
by admin | Jan 16, 2022 | Poems for Healing
The cavalry is not coming. I remember telling myself this. Distress can do that to you. Give you falsehoods. Make you forget. In the end though, I found a way to ‘find my own grit, in my own time’ (a beautiful phrase in Katherine May’s book ‘Wintering’)....
by admin | Jan 16, 2022 | Poems for Healing
We got matching yellow hats that day. From Wilko’s I think, plus a hand towel each. Oh, and we dropped by a charity shop, rummaged hastily… ‘There must be a couple here somewhere?’ – emerging exuberant with our finds! One over-sized, simply enormous,...