Well here we are back in national (Wales) lockdown again and two weeks stretch out in front of us as we attempt to slow the virus down.
I found this a few weeks ago and thought it would make a different sort of day out, a day out while staying at home - and popping virtually into a few more homes. A day with a difference! Follow the link below and click on this button which will be central to the page:
https://window-swap.com/
This website will allow you to hop in and out of different people's homes all across the world, and enjoy the view they have been enjoying since lockdown. I think this is a brilliant way to get some fresh inspiration and a new perspective on things - having been a writing student I love these weird and wonderful little exercises and they always are quite enlightening for me personally! Each time you move to a new window you will see a new view which could be anywhere in the world. Pay attention, what do we see? What do we engage with? What don't we see? What is right at the corner of the frame, almost out of sight? What can you tell from the frame itself?
Spend time today choosing say, 10 different views from this website - more if you wish - and for each view write down one thing which strikes you about that view. It might be a mountain, a chimney, a tower etc or it might be grandeur, neglect, decay or peace. Have a look and a think, and be creative!
Next look out of all of your windows at home, what in the familiar strikes you today? Maybe a flower, falling leaves, smoke etc. Or is it solitude, remoteness, isolation, comfort etc.? Again choose one description for each window. Remember, even the same outlook but from a different window can and should create another word, as the perspective of the view is slightly different.
Now in your creativity, your prayers or your devotions, in your general thinking, use the list of words you now have to inspire you. You might pray about what you see and what struck you, think about them for the day and let your thoughts shape you and what is round you. If you write or paint something using this inspiration, allow it to inform what you do. Acknowledge the similarities - and the differences - and how it makes you feel. We might all see the same objects, framed by the same window, but we can all see potential, hope and life in a different light.
Today I have some more to share with you that you've all been sending in - if I haven't included yours this week then don't worry, you have not been forgotten! There were lots of lovely things coming in this week, so much that I'm keeping some for next week too!
This week Marcela has emailed over some of her Autumn photos and they are gorgeous, thanks Marcela!
Those berries are magnificent!
Such a beautiful rainbow - and I love all the colour in the trees, just beginning to show through now. We'll see some more of Marcela's photo's next week too!
Penny sent through this little gem this week too. I think we can all raise a wry smile for this one - thanks Penny!
Brief Pageant of English Verse
I won’t arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, I’ll sanitize the doorknob and make a cup of tea. I won’t go down to the sea again; I won’t go out at all, I’ll wander lonely as a cloud from the kitchen to the hall. There’s a green-eyed yellow monster to the north of Katmandu But I shan’t be seeing him just yet and nor, I think, will you. While the dawn comes up like thunder on the road to Mandalay I’ll make my bit of supper and eat it off a tray. I shall not speed my bonnie boat across the sea to Skye Or take the rolling English road from Birmingham to Rye. About the woodland, just right now, I am not free to go To see the Keep Out posters or the cherry hung with snow, And no, I won’t be travelling much, within the realms of gold, Or get me to Milford Haven. All that’s been put on hold. Give me your hands, I shan’t request, albeit we are friends Nor come within a mile of you, until this trial ends.
And finally today I'll leave you with two I snapped down at Llantwit Beach.
Hope you all have a lovely weekend and enjoy a fresh view on things! - Becky
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