Session of 30th November

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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 

to regenerate and repair 

flaws and imperfections 

Kintsugi that’s the name of it 


Kate Lindsay

December 2020


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