SDF Mindfulness & Creative Writing

  NB: please click on READ MORE (bottom right of the screen) to see full script including links Adrienne's mindfulness practice today was the Body Scan (these practices can be accessed on YouTube if you would like to do the mindfulness in your own time). She opened with a poem called Instructions by Rudy Francisco. Bev prompted writing about "What the river says..."   with William Stafford's famous poem, Ask Me . Many thanks to Kate Lindsay for sending in this poem: Cracks and Crevices II Memories  bend unwilling to break hearts fracture  remembering delves into the cracks and crevices  pours molten gold into the fissures like that Japanese art  that I can’t remember the name of  perhaps the name doesn’t matter so much as the process of using  the gold nuggets  in our cache to fill the crevices  and cracks rendering them part of the whole laying foundations for the inevitable  fissures appearing  kindness and softness of memories flexing themselves