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Journalling for Self-Care
Getting Started, Tools, Dear Journal, Perfectionism Tools /Equipment One of the best things about journalling is you don’t need a bunch of special equipment. Just your mind, pen and paper. Screen Vs Paper: You can use a device and electronic format as a journal. This may be convenient in some cases such as keeping daily……
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Love Blooms
In our house love is shaped by folds a proliferation of origami in spring cherries blossoms on walls love is drawn in small blue cups stamps of affection float in foam atop carefully wrought delicate textures it is spelled in gestures timed by close watching eyes olive green with deft reach out by warm arms……
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The Company of Trees
Days like these the facelessness of trees is all I want – to see the crowd fade eyes that roll in sockets, jaws that jabber complicated symmetries of brows and noses can all fade into the doesn’t matter. I only want to talk with the faceless heads of trees – the way they hold up……
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Go for a Walk (without leaving home)
We all know regular exercise is crucial to maintaining wellness. Did you know studies have shown regular exercise is as effective as anti-depressant medication at improving mild depression? Of course, walking improves fitness and joint /muscle mobility. A walk also provides variety in sensory stimulation, helping you to change mind set. Fresh air and sunshine……
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Celtic Skies
The sky is indifferent, the sky is kind always reaching in, uninvited with long white cloudy fingers prising open planks of sternum, one by one chest rivets pop and sigh – taste the silver and the blue tints run, inking through time eyes feather soft and wide to gulls glide, natures guards mount impartial in this……
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The new way home
Climbing the lane together September suppertime snuff out of light children soon scatter aggregate under foot rough and reassuring on the steep way home. Taste of shank and IPA lingers, oozes a stolidity welcome to thighs and calves tested in the press on up. Home – is somewhere new now stashes a fizz of disquiet……
About Lee, and the Sky House
Lee is a mixed-heritage writer, mother of three, and former clinical psychologist, from Otautahi, Chch, in Aotearoa NZ. Themes in her writing include illness and coping, the experience of creativity, nature, domestic life, and women’s relationships and identity as mothers. Currently, she is at home most days nursing a chronic inflammatory illness – but she is working on that! You can follow Lee’s blog by subscribing to the Sky House newsletter (below) or follow the Sky House Poetry page on Facebook.
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“Poetry is… emotion recollected in tranquillity”, William Wordsworth
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