In poetry therapy and expressive writing groups, loss is always close to the surface and informs much of what it is we want or need to write about. As Kahlil… read more →
Here’s a blog about the first, and so far, only, film I’ve seen this year – Paterson by Jim Jarmusch. My mentor-supervisor, Geri Chavis often uses film in her… read more →
5th Day of Christmas Catch-Up Blog Gertrude Stein famously said of Oakland that ‘there is no there there’. The opposite applies to Canterbury – there is so much there here… read more →
Here is a poem I love by Anne Sexton – a great one for opening discussion about words in all their mysterious multiplicity … called, simply and complicatedly, Words. This summer… read more →
Most Sunday mornings, I cycle home from a zumba class soon after ten. After crossing the railway, I tentatively signal right, cross the traffic, and then follow a path around… read more →
We are fast approaching the shortest day. Thank goodness – or at least I do – for the distraction of Christmas and the gift of bright, cold weather in Kent… read more →
Here’s a snap of the Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year event at St Gregory’s Centre for Music. It’s a newly converted church and looks stunning but has all kinds… read more →
I’m a bit of a zumba bore but I can only counter that my whole life goes better if I regularly attend classes where we move to a mixture of… read more →
Eternity is a very long time – especially towards the end, quipped Woody Allen – possibly quoting other sources. I regularly attend a Zen group that is part of the Wild Goose sangha… read more →
What a beautiful day. Ash Wednesday came and woke me early with the beginnings of a dawn chorus. I rode my bike to the cathedral – a mile away downhill,… read more →