Ending and Beginning

A day of sunshine with a strong and biting northerly wind. Outside it was best to move steadily rather than to linger.

It was the last of my mindfulness course sessions this evening. We finished with a group meditation and a reading of Seamus Heaney poem ‘Postscript’. I’ll miss the group but plan to continue sharing mindfulness practice through the Breathworks ‘community of practice’. It’s free and includes many supportive activities and resources.

Postscript
By Seamus Heaney

And some time make the time to drive out west
Into County Clare, along the Flaggy Shore,
In September or October, when the wind
And the light are working off each other
So that the ocean on one side is wild
With foam and glitter, and inland among stones
The surface of a slate-grey lake is lit
By the earthed lightning of a flock of swans,
Their feathers roughed and ruffling, white on white,
Their fully grown headstrong-looking heads
Tucked or cresting or busy underwater.
Useless to think you'll park and capture it
More thoroughly. You are neither here nor there,
A hurry through which known and strange things pass
As big soft buffetings come at the car sideways
And catch the heart off guard and blow it open.