Musings on life, love, and healing past trauma
The other day, as I contemplated participating in GloPoWriMo 2020, I found this fabulous advise in on or their posts –
… “check out noted thespian and space captain Sir Patrick Stewart’s twitter account, where he is posting a video of himself reading one of Shakespeare’s sonnets every day, under #sonnetaday?”
So off you go – listen to a sonnet or two. Or all eleven so far… ❤️
Our world has changed immensely in the last few weeks but amid the upheaval and distress, there are reasons to believe we can emerge from the crisis with some human qualities enhanced, writes Matthew Syed.
The coronavirus has turned our lives upside down and, although we hope to return to some version of normality in the coming months, it is probable that nothing will quite be the same again. Many have lost their livelihoods and businesses, and there is no diminishing the difficulties - emotional and financial - this has brought in its wake. But amid the darkness, there are also opportunities. Opportunities to reimagine the world and one's place within it. Reversal techniques are typically used by people working in the creative industries to come up with new products or innovations. I wonder if we can all use it to seek out a silver lining or two amid the grey clouds.
Read the rest of the article here.
Matthew Syed is the author of Rebel Ideas: the Power of Diverse Thinking
Drawings by Emma Lynch.
I don’t know why.
But taking this crisis to grow and evolve a better world,
are for me the only option.
Do you agree?
Young people lack continuity
© REDCAT
Every other modern generation
Imagined a better brighter future
Today all they see
Widespread environmental disaster unfolding
Economic systems benefiting the few
Societies brought to breaking point by a minuscule organism
Inspired by this week’s Sunday Muse and Sammi Cox’s weekend prompt.
Also linked to the Writer’s Pantry and Promote Yourself Monday.
Lonesome cold Saturday night
Lovers far from eyes sight
Separated by virus fright
Kept apart, acting rightConnected only by zero, one, zero
Challenging each to be an emotional hero
Learning how to digital love show
Delight in a faraway blue screen glowCloseness but not physical such
Comfort without a hand to clutch
Sharing love, but unable to touch
Skin missing skin very muchAs time comes for sleep
© REDCAT
Longing go bone deep
Remembered embraces mind warm keeps
My hands substituting yours, orgasm upon orgasm me sweep
I downloaded this app because it was recommended in my Compassion Focused Therapy. And because I realized I needed help and guiding if I were ever to learn mindfulness and meditation properly. That’s also when I started my intense meditations. For about a week I used the app without an account all together. Which is […]
Insight Timer – app review — Mrs Delight
I decided it was time to reboot my other blog, which I started for writing reviews (mostly) in English, and then more or less abandoned because that was not the kind of writing I needed. Just the kind I dared to share with the world.
Now I know there are kind supportive people out there, who amazingly like what I write. Something that fills my heart with gratitude!
Thank you all! ❤️
Hello Everyone– In these times of uncertainty and fear, I wanted to share a poem with you that I cut out of a newspaper 26 years ago. To give you a little background on my mental state back then, I had recently lost my husband of over 7 years to suicide and my life was […]
Message of Hope- After A While- Veronica A. Shoffstall — Go Dog Go Café
In the box, fragments of me
© REDCAT
Shameful shards, bits I rather not be
I wrote this couplet a few days in my notebook, but couldn’t get any further. Now, I use it as it is for Franks Final Couplet challenge.
A couplet is two similar lines of verse. Both lines have the same meter. They do not have to rhyme. However, they should make sense together and have a similar metrical structure.
A quick check on the children. Stroking a forehead, tucking in feets.
Then the night belongs to me and my muses.
A cup of fragrant Yogi tea. A glas of wine.
Ritual to settle the mind before a deep dive. Immersion in past trauma, old harmful programming. Writing for hours upon hours, transforming fear and hurt. Into witty words. Beautiful stanzas. World’s born from imagination. Spinning rhymes, sounding syllables,.
Following feets and meters.
Word alchemy to heal.
The witching hour passes. The muses depart. Another night sacrificed.
Tomorrow comes the work of typing it up. Revising and editing for publication.
Time for Friday Fictioneers, and this time I landed in another installment of turning my life into fictional tales.
To read other stories inspired by the same photo. Click the frog.
The world according to RedCat
The world according to RedCat 