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"I have learnt how to be in the present." "How?" asked the boy "I find a quiet spot and shut my eyes and breathe." "That's good, and then?" "Then I focus." "What do you focus on?" "Cake" said the mole. ====================================== extract from: The Boy, the Mole the Fox and the Horse Charlie Mackesy Instagram link.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, I am not old.. she said I am rare. I am the standing ovation At the end of the play. I am the retrospective Of my life as art I am the hours Connected like dots Into good sense I am the fullness Of existing. You think I am waiting to die.. But I am waiting to be found I am a treasure. I am a map. And these wrinkles are
Imprints of my journey Ask me anything. ~ Samantha Reynolds I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice, subtly shaped by some divine intelligence to allow water to flow in and out with ease, is what I aspire to become: a vessel through which feelings can pour in and spill right out again, without all the grasping and holding that obstructs the flow. "Can I be as serene and simple as this bleached shell, rubbed smooth by wind and water, receiving and releasing, filling and emptying and filling again, eternally receptive to the currents of life?"
- Katrina Kenison, The Gift of an ordinary day I was sad all day, and why not. There I was, books piled on both sides of the table, paper stacked up, words falling off my tongue. The robins had been a long time singing, and now it was beginning to rain. What are we sure of? Happiness isn’t a town on a map, or an early arrival, or a job well done, but good work ongoing. Which is not likely to be the trifling around with a poem. Then it began raining hard, and the flowers in the yard were full of lively fragrance. You have had days like this, no doubt. And wasn’t it wonderful, finally, to leave the room? Ah, what a moment! As for myself, I swung the door open.
And there was the wordless, singing world. And I ran for my life. —Mary Oliver, Work, Sometimes You cut a length of thread, pull the end through the eye of a needle and knot one end. You take a piece of fabric and push your needle into one side of the cloth, then pull it out on the other until it reaches the knot. You leave a space. You push your needle back thru the fabric and pull it out on the other side. You continue until you have made a line, or a curve, or a wave of stitches or simply a mark. That is all there is: thread, needle, fabric, and the pattern the thread makes. This is sewing.
............................................................................................. Words from the book….THE THREADS OF LIFE A History of the World through the Eye of a Needle CLARE HUNTER There is a time when you need to refocus on the task in hand... with a few words and great images, it is a thought process and a journey. Without thought, there is no art, when there is no art there is a huge hole... "I am not old she said, I am not old she said..." But the music continues to play, swirling with the first Opus and gathering pace as it comes to the finale. With notes in a precious book, tis time to reflect and move on....
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