Category: mindfulness
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Poems to read together with children
First one here is something I’d like to share with my grandson, Jams who lives far away. Reading poetry with children is something I’ve always enjoyed and there are some wonderful poems to share here: A small dragon Brian Patten (you can listen here: http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/small-dragon) Treat yourself and be read to. I’ve found a small…
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Rain
Traditionally we sing that April is a rainy month. Yesterday, here, it did indeed. But we’re promised sunshine for the next few days and that’s wonderful to me. Our first poem is by Langston Hughes. He was a prolific writer and a mountain of a man. You can read more about him on Red Hot…
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Today we honour the wind…
Monday’s poems are about wind. Neither of these poets were known as “children’s poets” but their poems would be lovely to read with your favourite child. Image attribute: Holly Cazabon The Wind Poem Amy Lowell (1874–1925) http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/amy-lowell He shouts in the sails of the ships at sea, He steals the down from the honeybee, He…
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my mother, my self
my mother, my self. Oh Gal, this resonates with me on so many levels. Hopefully sharing it, might healp other daughters and mothers to rise to another level of wholeness. Blessings be on your head.
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Poems to Ponder … a new feature
Every day blusters anew more yellow, gold, red, brown leaves dance down and down delighted to join brothers and sisters as they find their rest on earth and in earth as I would do and will do sooner than perhaps I would prefer Autumn’s Grace susanna suchak Monday, November 3rd, 2014
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Learning…to listen
Lately, it seems, I am making more time for reflection. Perhaps it is the season; perhaps that I am beginning to find comfort in the artful practice of contemplative photography; perhaps it is just who I am and who I am becoming. Reflecting requires a high degree of listening. That said, I am beginning to…
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Thankful…
It’s been a week since I journalled … until this morning. Now for some, and for me at other times in my life, this would be no news, a big yawn, a so what kind of revelation. But I am a transformative language coach. In other words, I assist people to become mindful through expressing…
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