We were very grateful to have Christine De Luca, the Makar of Edinburgh (The Edinburgh version of the Poet Laureate) with us today. Christine introduced us to different poems by a variety of poets about life affirming subjects such as hope, peace, escape, growth, humour and love. We discovered that sometimes we can really connect aContinue reading “Accessing Emotion Through Poetry”
Monthly Archives: January 2016
Worrying about the day you’ll never see
In last weeks group we explored some people’s fears and worries and came to realise that we can worry so much about something happening, or losing something, that we are unable to enjoy life and what we have because every peaceful enjoyable moment is robbed by worry. Sometimes what we fear the most is fearContinue reading “Worrying about the day you’ll never see”
Getting through the darkness
Today was the first group of 2016 so it was interesting to hear how people had got on over the Christmas period. Group members had mixed experiences over the period which can be common for a lot of people at this time of year. However, what was encouraging was how members who had positive experiences over this time couldContinue reading “Getting through the darkness”
2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,400 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 57 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see theContinue reading “2015 in review”
Christmas and New Year blog
We wish all the very best to our readers for 2016, and apologies for the delay in getting out what should have been the last blog of 2015. We saw out the end of the year with a group the week before Christmas with some snacks, some funny videos and messages of hope for oneContinue reading “Christmas and New Year blog”