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Session of 8th February

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  NB: please click on READ MORE (bottom right of the screen) to see full script including links Adrienne's mindfulness practice today was "Noticing our attitude to the Undercurrent" and she introduced it with David Whyte's moving poem "The Well of Grief".  Bev introduced the 7 minutes of writing with the prompt otherness everyness nothingness and this was bravely taken from her own poem: Friend Pen Hand over to friend pen. Let slacken the taut expectation of sense, sometimes  even descending into gibberish. Much is for nought - no expectation  just still, let flow, say farewell to control, listen for that bell note of resonance that is otherness everyness nothingness Wither and wait, dither and sip tea, if it's there. Stroke the cat if it stays, or just doze, till the ink bubbles up and  the tiny ball in the pen must be drawn through the soft-promise pulp of the page, the graphite scratched on its parchment repose.  Let the clatter of keys on computer 

Session of 1st February

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  NB: please click on READ MORE (bottom right of the screen) to see full script including links Adrienne's mindfulness practice today was " Loving Kindness " and she introduced it with that well known Mary Oliver poem "Wild Geese" .  Bev introduced the 7 minutes of writing with the prompt I can ease one life inspired by this Emily Dickinson poem: If I can stop one heart from breaking   If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.