☀︎ 2 Days Private Meditation ☀︎ 4 Days Watching Fishing ☀︎ 6 Days Voice Coaching ☀︎ 5 Days Loving

Poetry written during six trips, a total of twenty-six days, spread over almost eight months in 2018.Madhyamaka Buddhist Meditation Centre is one of our favoured venues. This time I went, on my own, for a couple of days private retreat in early Springtime.Carlton Minnott is the home for the fishing lakes and log cabins which I visited with my son Andrew, he is the fisherman not I. We also had a day out at Ampleforth and Sutton Bank in April's unseasonably good weather.Linklater Voice is on the Orkneys. Kate and I joined fifteen other students to improve our voices courtesy of our enigmatic tutor Kristen. We then moved on to the divine Puffin Quoy for a week of pure relaxation.Emerson College, Forest Row was the location for the Community of Inter-being five day retreat on Loving Kindness. I had been to this place thirteen years previous, on a writing week, in more troubled times.Finally, Kate and I turned up at Glenthorne Quaker Centre and Hotel, for a weekend of resilience meditation, led by Adam Dacey of Mindspace.