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Newsletter Archive: September 2007
September 2007
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- Lapidus Cornwall book launch - ‘Mud flats’ reflections - Workshop dates: 22 September, near Bideford, Devon; 13 October, Chacewater Village Hall, near Truro, Cornwall; and 2008 date in London
Lapidus Cornwall Book Launch
Lapidus Cornwall have just published ‘Prompted to Write – three years of Words fro Well-Being in Cornwall’, edited by Zeeba Ansari and Victoria Field, to celebrate the completion of Words for Well-Being, a three year Arts Council South West Lottery-funded series of workshops and training organised by Lapidus Cornwall. It includes articles, reflections, poems, stories and accounts of workshops by over 30 contributors who participated in the programme. I was one of the contributors and hope to attend the launch. If you are in Cornwall it is on the Tuesday 25 September at 7.30 pm in Waterstones Bookshop, Truro – contact me for full details if you would like to come along.
Mud flats – and the incoming tide
Reflections: written on a warm late summer day, sitting by the mud flats near the Camel Trail. (If you are not familiar with N Cornwall, this is a cycle track along the old railway line alongside the River Camel, though the vision of camel trekking is an attractive mental picture!)
I am looking up a creek away from the main river estuary. I can see an ancient landscape of fields, trees, hedges, and the salt marshes that are only occasionally covered by the highest tides. It is low tide now and the mud flats are exposed with streams cutting winding channels through them. The mud looks glutinous and smelly, but it is full of life, little worms and shellfish. The bigger pools have grey mullet swimming in them, splashing occasionally – though I can’t see them swimming beneath the surface as the water is murky. A breeze stirs the surface of the water; the tide has turned and is coming in steadily.
I feel sometimes that my plans and ideas are lost in a murky, muddy morass. I can’t see clearly what I should do next, or which way to go. Some of the steps I take feel like wading in the deep sticky mud.
Maybe I just need to wait for the tide to turn, in its own time – nothing I can do will speed it up. Once the tide covers the mud flats new life with sweep in, free to swim and feed and breed in a big expanse of open water.
The book I am working on has felt bogged down recently. I have been feeling that I have been working away at it but not getting anywhere. Some new ideas have just started emerging in my mind, maybe the tide is changing and I will soon find the right words.
Is there something you are trying to do that feels ‘stuck’ or ‘bogged down’? Are you being too impatient? Would waiting for the ‘tide’ – of ideas, of the seasons, of fashion or trends – to change make all the difference? If things you are trying to do seem difficult, a struggle, are you trying to ‘swim against the tide’? If you choose your time will the tide carry you along with it and take you where you need to go?
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