Grace & Joy!

An intuitive poem, flowing by itself on an August morning, whilst sitting in a maize field.

Visiting this field and sketching, over the course of a few weeks as a daily project for my Creativity and Wonder sessions.

So much to learn from plants x and the crickets, grasshoppers, gnats and midges...

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Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Music by Chad Crouch 'Marsh Wrens'

 
Episode cover - Photo of the maize plants next to me
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting

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Written as a flow of consciousness one night after a train home late from Truro. Straight out, a few mins.

The words from a commuter about papier-mâché ... led to a poem, a glued-together observation on certain relationships perhaps...

No intention, no 'thinking' really, just a flow..

- and the surreal yet everyday noticing - of a man and his box of 'Finest Medjool Dates'...and another man incessently curling and uncurling a sticker around a metal bar between Redruth and St Erth Stations. 

* apologies for the loudness of the music in the beginning x

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Music by Chad Crouch 'Soft Driver'

 
Episode cover - photo of the train at Truro station
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting

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An intuitive poem, written in a few mins, whilst sitting with a hedgerow :)  

Walking across fields and then sitting with the hedgerow, looking up at the sky, the grasses, fine-liner fronds... thoughts like teasels... and the elements of the hedgerow mirrored a mind state x

'Let nature transform pains into colours, and species ancient, harmonious and rare... and common.'

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Music by Chad Crouch 'Ballad of the Blackbird'

 
Episode cover - 'Through the fields, Gulval''- quick pastel sketch
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting

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Another tiny episode of just over 3 mins with a garden bluetit who sang a few words to me :) - I write automatically as she chatters... 

So resonant and the perfect message x

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Thank you, Bluetit x

& thank you for listening.

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Episode cover - Bluetit and song'- quick ink sketch
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting

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A tiny episode of almost 3 mins inspired by fragments overheard... and writing spontaneously for a minute or so afterwards.

Thank you so much for listening to this fragment of a podcast episode.

• I have many more spontaneous extracts, short stories and poems inspired by catching glimpses and would love to hear any that you have.

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Episode cover - '3 minute flowers' from a recent Creativity & Wonder session
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting

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An episode on Reiki and its many beautiful layers... from creating a peaceful space for physical wellbeing, to its spiritual and divine nature.

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'Peace and safety begin with how we feel and experience in our own bodies, and from here a world can change.

Reiki is a somatic energy practice that treats from a place of unity and wholeness, recognising that our true nature is already one of health and radiance. Bringing us back to the recognition of this at a cellular, emotional, psychological and spiritual level brings fresh joy and peace into our lives and to those around us.'

...to continue reading, please see here on my Substack.

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Music by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Floating in Space'

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Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting

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An episode of just over 3 mins written in a few minutes after a morning walk down a particular street.

A shining beetle, clouds and 'pinpoint' noticing one morning.

So wonderful writing these, having no idea really what will emerge...
the process of writing and then reading them is always so surprising and calming for me.

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A short meditation in the Japanese tradition which cleanses and clears your energies with Reiki.

So useful for Reiki practioners before and after treatments and for any time on order to feel clear and calm. Beautiful for non-practioners too x

• The meditation begins at 1 min 33 seconds in.
• https://www.reiki.org/articles/we-are-creating-world-peace for a beautiful article on Reiki and World Peace by William Lee Rand.

Thank you for listening and I hope you've enjoyed this meditation x

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Music by Chad Crouch www.soundofpicture.com - 'Gentle Marimbas'
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Episode cover - 'Peace Grid' in the 'Oil Press' Art Gallery, Old Jerusalem
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting

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A tiny episode of just over 2 mins with a garden nuthatch who sang a few words to me :) - I write automatically as she chatters... 

So resonant and the perfect messge x

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‘Sliding scale musical joy is here every day

and I run, creep, sleek up and down it

as you do. 

Si Si Siiiiii! Smooth…and bubbling merry under, my call.

This heart glows radiant soft, timeless – 

beneath my orange-pink underfeathers and

you have my blue-grey artist back,

a colour-wheel, complementary creeper

plus tree – perfect!

Though I disappear into deeper woods, it’s true,

I return when you do, 

with clear focus, black stripe precision sharp

direct through the eye

and point to our purpose, our poise,

our protection.

Swift, sure and true – 

I am an inner fire of blessing.

Si Si Si!

As are you.’


Thank you, Nuthatch x 

& thank you for listening.

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Episode cover - Garden Nuthatch - superquick ink sketch
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An intuitive poem of 2 mins 45 written in a few minutes after listening to 'The World at One' on Radio 4 and then looking outside. 

Feeling a  great need for calming ... and the birds and the trees spoke to me x

So wonderful writing these, having no idea really what will emerge...
the process of writing and then reading them is always so surprising and calming for me.

'This is the news' – an afternoon poem

This is the world at 1.45 says the news presenter on Radio 4. 

This is the news, firmly, this is the news at 1. 45. 

This is the news, says the wood pigeon outside my window. 

This is the news, says the collared dove who comes 

to eat at the bird table with her. 

It's all okay Rowena, it's all okay. 

After the fighting, after the darkness, after the killing, 

after the bruises, it's all okay Rowena.

And then the purring, the mala all along, its Buddha beads, 

my cat, in orange and white, breathing and purring 

like beads. Ginger. And softly sliding 

through different doors. 

A myriad to ignore, these doors.

It's all okay Rowena. 

Feel the earth in your hands. Gritty, grounding. 

Outside of culture. Voices. Life out there. 

This is life. This is the world. 

To in here. In this culture, this extraordinary richness 

in this soil. 

The morning spins and it is gone. 

The birds are still here. 

Onka, onka, onka. 

Flitting through myrtle leaves.

One thing, one thing, one thing, one leaf.

One shiny, one satin, one thing, Rowena, one thing. 

The sycamores in their perpendicular bowing are in agreeance. 

Their branches are knotty, one thing, one thing. 

Bare, weighing up the wind. 

Comme ci, comme ça 

they say in the breeze.

The camellia is full pink, blooming pink, and so healthy, so well, 

so new, full of buds and blossoms, 

she calls to me.

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Episode cover - photo of my garden camellia
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting

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