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Week two: NEST

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WEEK 2: NEST

Welcome to week two!
A special, warm welcome to those just joining us.

Here is the intro and WEEK 1.

It is a joy to have you all here X

I hope that every day of the last week has brought you some form of light, no matter what darkness may have filled the landscape. I hope you found comfort and sustenance in the time you carved to write, and if you did not find that time to write: I send you encouragement and strength. We are living through a moment unlike any other. You are doing your best, you are turning up for yourself even through simply reading these emails.


 
Silence, stillness – the gaps in between time-these are where writing happens. The writing that happens in those moments is happening inside us. If we can get it down – on paper, our child’s tissue, in notes on our phone – well and good. If we can’t, I have no doubt that those thoughts – those ghost fragments, wee shards of light in the coal black night – will gnaw away at us until we must, we simply must! – place them on the page. I have come across

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