Visiting this field and sketching, over the course of a few weeks as a daily project for my Creativity and Wonder sessions.

So much to learn from plants x and the crickets, grasshoppers, gnats and midges...

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The words from a commuter about papier-mâché ... led to a poem, a glued-together observation on certain relationships perhaps...

No intention, no 'thinking' really, just a flow..

- and the surreal yet everyday noticing - of a man and his box of 'Finest Medjool Dates'...and another man incessently curling and uncurling a sticker around a metal bar between Redruth and St Erth Stations. 

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Walking across fields and then sitting with the hedgerow, looking up at the sky, the grasses, fine-liner fronds... thoughts like teasels... and the elements of the hedgerow mirrored a mind state x

'Let nature transform pains into colours, and species ancient, harmonious and rare... and common.'

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Thank you, Bluetit x

& thank you for listening.

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Thank you so much for listening to this fragment of a podcast episode.

• I have many more spontaneous extracts, short stories and poems inspired by catching glimpses and would love to hear any that you have.

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'Peace and safety begin with how we feel and experience in our own bodies, and from here a world can change.

Reiki is a somatic energy practice that treats from a place of unity and wholeness, recognising that our true nature is already one of health and radiance. Bringing us back to the recognition of this at a cellular, emotional, psychological and spiritual level brings fresh joy and peace into our lives and to those around us.'

...to continue reading, please see here on my Substack.

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• The meditation begins at 1 min 33 seconds in.
• https://www.reiki.org/articles/we-are-creating-world-peace for a beautiful article on Reiki and World Peace by William Lee Rand.

Thank you for listening and I hope you've enjoyed this meditation x

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and I run, creep, sleek up and down it

as you do. 

Si Si Siiiiii! Smooth…and bubbling merry under, my call.

This heart glows radiant soft, timeless – 

beneath my orange-pink underfeathers and

you have my blue-grey artist back,

a colour-wheel, complementary creeper

plus tree – perfect!

Though I disappear into deeper woods, it’s true,

I return when you do, 

with clear focus, black stripe precision sharp

direct through the eye

and point to our purpose, our poise,

our protection.

Swift, sure and true – 

I am an inner fire of blessing.

Si Si Si!

As are you.’


Thank you, Nuthatch x 

& thank you for listening.

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This is the world at 1.45 says the news presenter on Radio 4. 

This is the news, firmly, this is the news at 1. 45. 

This is the news, says the wood pigeon outside my window. 

This is the news, says the collared dove who comes 

to eat at the bird table with her. 

It's all okay Rowena, it's all okay. 

After the fighting, after the darkness, after the killing, 

after the bruises, it's all okay Rowena.

And then the purring, the mala all along, its Buddha beads, 

my cat, in orange and white, breathing and purring 

like beads. Ginger. And softly sliding 

through different doors. 

A myriad to ignore, these doors.

It's all okay Rowena. 

Feel the earth in your hands. Gritty, grounding. 

Outside of culture. Voices. Life out there. 

This is life. This is the world. 

To in here. In this culture, this extraordinary richness 

in this soil. 

The morning spins and it is gone. 

The birds are still here. 

Onka, onka, onka. 

Flitting through myrtle leaves.

One thing, one thing, one thing, one leaf.

One shiny, one satin, one thing, Rowena, one thing. 

The sycamores in their perpendicular bowing are in agreeance. 

Their branches are knotty, one thing, one thing. 

Bare, weighing up the wind. 

Comme ci, comme ça 

they say in the breeze.

The camellia is full pink, blooming pink, and so healthy, so well, 

so new, full of buds and blossoms, 

she calls to me.

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• The meditation begins at  1 min 26  (see chapter marker)  Apologies for abrupt ending of music! My audio editor has changed and I can't quite work out how to do fade ins/out yet... :)

' ...you realise that all along there was something tremendous within you, and you did not know it. ' - Paramahansa Yogananda  

• More info on Self-Realisation Fellowship 

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• The visualisation begins at 1 min 52 secs in 

• More info on Lee Harris

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• I also had to suddenly jump up and paint! -  a 1 min painting with inks (the podcast cover for this episode) x

• Eckhart Tolle and the wren (whilst hopping over and under and through the fence (the wren :))) :

‘Be grateful for your experience 

in this moment, 

whatever it may be

and if you can’t be grateful,

allow it to be

because, well…

it already Is’ 

‘You might as well do this tiny little thing’,

said the wren,

‘because then …

if you did this tiny little thing

you will lessen

your

suffer

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• There is also a reading of Ted Hughes' 'Wind' at around 3 mins 55 

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• Featuring mewing from Brother G too, from about 2 mins 20 in :) x

The episode is a reading of five poems  - the first four short ones by e.e.cummings and the last, longer one by Pablo Neruda.

• 'Who are you, little i' by e.e cummings
• 'Spring is like a perhaps hand '- by e.e.c
• 'In Just Spring' by e.e.c
• 'In Spring Comes' by e.e.c
• 'Ode to the Cat' by Pablo Neruda

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I'd love to know your thoughts on Grace too...

• A reading of Rilke's 'The Poet Speaks of Praising' is at 7mins 12 secs in
• An extract from Rilke's  'Letters to a Young Poet' is at 13 mins 46 secs

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• Workshops - local and zoom
• Website - main one!
• Intuitive painting website 

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•  I briefly mention the 'Grace & Joy Intuitive Painting workshops' and here's the Link to Meetup - for more info and to join.

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• ''Today' by Mary Oliver
• 'Considering the Snail' by Tom Gunn
• ''Clarifications' by A.R Ammons

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We often have a cup of tea and chat too and Val has shared how much comfort she feels from reading poetry, especially by Patience Strong. She has a wonderful 1930s booklet of her poetry that belonged to her mother and this episode is dedicated to Val reading from this booklet. 

• Stay tuned for a Cornish poem at the end :)
• The cover photo is Moss listening to Val whilst she reads x so beautiful :) 

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• The episode is quite long but essentially the meditation practice is very short and can be done at any time, whenever remembered :)
• Guided meditation begins at 2 mins 30

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• Intuitive poem - 9:53 secs
• Rumi's 'The Guest House'  (trans. Coleman Barks) - 13:41 secs

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• 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking ' -  the beginning, and into a little of the 'Once Paumanok' section, by Walt Whitman 
• 'Meg Merrilies' by John Keats
• 'The Old Grey Squirrel' by Alfred Noyes

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It was truly wonderful to be in conversation with Janni Littlepage, a friend with so many creative gifts and talents, including being a singer-songwriter, artist, writer, garden designer and much more…

Janni shares beautiful experiences, moments and insights that have inspired and influenced her life and the conversation includes thoughts around creativity, sensitivity, being an empath, and gentle advice to our younger selves and others.

Many animals also feature, including dogs, cats, quails, monarch butterflies and beetles… x

Janni reads her poem ‘Transcendence’ which is Pearl 22 from her book ‘Angels in my Teacup’.

*Thank you to Janni’s partner Paul who helped with editing and including Janni’s poem and music, ‘A Delicate Dance’😊        

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1:54 – Conversation begins

2:13 – Alice in her ‘muchness’ and multi-dimensional creativity!

2:24 – The inspiration for Janni’s song ‘Strange Angels’ – including a stray cat, reading about a rescue and an encounter on entering the freeway in Los Angeles…

10:55 – On garden design and the little creatures within home and garden – celebrating much-maligned insects x

16:43 – Mentioning ‘That Quail, Robert’ by Margaret Stanger

17:30 – Janni’s current projects, including the illustrated poem ‘Lilli Belle the Wonder Dog’

22:55 – ‘The Tiny Kingdom Chronicles’ – Four little books on insect characters 

23:22 – ‘Angels in my Teacup – Divine Encounters and Extraordinary Events’ – almost completed

24:24 – Having met Janni in a Lee Harris group. Lee Harris, energy intuitive, has been such a wonderful and important part of Janni’s journey.

24:50 – ‘If my client is not a friend to begin with, they always end up being a friend.’ x Janni’s garden website ‘Janni the Garden Whisperer’.

30:53 – The Buckeye tree – smooth barked, fragrant conical white blossoms…

32:09 – At 7 years old …and also the Butterfly Parade in Pacific Grove, California

34:30 – ‘As I became a teenager and a young person, I had a difficult time knowing where someone else’s feelings began, or ended, and mine began.’ - On the gifts of sensitivity and being an empath…

38:24 – ‘Each soul is sovereign’ – and on developing discernment

41:35 – ‘I had this feeling that I was supposed to do something, with music… Asking spirit and encountering an Angel.

43:58 – Interlude and the song ‘A Delicate Dance’ by Janni Littlepage and Johan Seige and then ‘Pearl 22’, ‘Transcendence’ – Janni reading her poem

45:42 – ‘When you have an idea, whatever it is…be discerning about who you share those early ideas with…

 ‘Now, as I’ve gotten older I have only very beautiful friends... Really think who you feel safe with… it is like finding a jewel.’

50:34 – ‘A Delicate Dance’  to the end

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• & garden design website: Janni the Garden Whisperer

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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Meadowlands' - so beautiful x
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• Jan 2021 

I'm currently offering 1:1 sessions (40 mins) on Zoom and would love to hear from you if you'd like a  session at a greatly reduced price in exchange for a testimonial :)
Please contact me via my website or email rowenascotney@btinternet.com 

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Purring by Charley
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• There is a little commentary too before the meditation begins, including the reference to Mr Duffy in the story 'A Painful Case',  in James Joyce's 'Dubliners' - 'Mr Duffy lived a short distance from his body'.

 This is another of my own meditations, inspired by my own practice and elements of others I've loved over the years.

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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Morning Mist'
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Episode cover - 'I am offering this poem ...  a scarf to wear over your hair' - watercolour sketch
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting

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• The  poem begins at 41 secs 

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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wonderblues'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney

Episode cover - 'I made my coat a song' - watercolour sketch
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting

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• Poem begins at 11 mins 28 secs

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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney

Episode cover - 'Embracing the greys' - intuitive painting
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting

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• An intro and then the poem begins at 4 mins 47 secs

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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Marsh Wrens (Instrumental)'
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Episode cover - 'Love Within' - intuitive painting
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting

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• A little bit at the beginning and end and the poem begins at 2 mins 27 secs

• 'Inaction of Shoes' by Ron Padgett in 'The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness and Joy' by John Brehm - a beautiful anthology of spiritual poetry. -  

'The Buddha once told a disciple that good spiritual friends are the whole of holy life. The poems expertly gathered here offer all that one might hope for in such spiritual friendship: wisdom, compassion, peacefulness, good humor, and the ability to both absorb and express the deepest human emotions of grief and joy.' - from the back cover .

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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney

Episode cover - 'shoes sitting there'  - crayon sketch
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting

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• A little bit at the beginning and then the poem begins at 2 mins 45 secs

• 'Ode to My Socks' by Pablo Neruda (translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden)

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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney

Episode cover - 'these celestial socks of lapiz and gold' - crayon sketch
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting

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• Poem begins at 4 mins 26 secs

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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney

Episode cover - 'Plum eating a piece of old rabbit' :(  Non-dom 3 second sketch
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin' - felting

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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
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Episode cover - 'Saturday Song' (detail) intuitive painting
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting

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• Meditation begins at 1min 30 secs

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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Gentle Marimbas'

Artwork by Rowena Scotney

Episode cover - ‘Moonlight evening in May'
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting

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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
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Episode cover - 'Leaping alive - into the green space' - intuitive painting
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting

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• Poem (recorded out of the wind) begins at 3 mins 30 secs

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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'La Di Day'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney

Episode cover - St Michael's Mount from Perranuthnoe fields, Cornwall - September 2020
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting

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Anja Kersten is an inspiring writer, performer and filmmaker with a huge amount of creative offerings full of wonder, depth and intrigue for a magic world.

It was fantastic to have a conversation on topics ranging from sensitivity, imagination, curiosity, wonder, improvisation, courage, authenticity and more...

This is the second in our Conversations series with creative changemakers and I hope you enjoy the episode as much as I did. Thank you Anja!

• The conversation starts at 3 mins 18 seconds in & there's a short musical interlude at 20 mins 44 secs.

Wonderful takeaways:

• 'Everything I've done before feeds into what I'm doing now, maybe an understanding of our humanness'  - on trainings in social work, theatre & education, acting, coaching & more...
• Stories emerging from improvisation and funny occurances such as an aunt's text about a garden dwarf/gnome :)
• '50 Shades of Stuck' - on feeling stuck, doodling and humour! 
• 'I love fairy tales' - fairy tales and East Germany.
• 'Being wired differently' - on being an HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) and an Empath.
• 'I was a very dreamy child' - on the blessing of attending the Rudolf Steiner School in Nuremberg.
• 'Creating a community of people who feel different, coming together in their weirdness' - 'Dreamy Capuccino - Live!' - On future projects (tea drinkers also welcome :)) 
• 'Standing in your own uniqueness' - a focus for future 1:1 sessions.
• To young women - 'Really look closely at the messages [you] get from others and instead of doubting [yourself] immediately, look at the messages and doubt them - see whether they're true, or not.'
• 'I don't want to be perfect in anything I do.'
• 'We have numerous opportunities to see something extraordinary in the ordinary.'
• You need to cultivate your curiosity.'
• Anja follows a regular meditation practice and also her own version of 'Morning Pages' inspired by Julia Cameron's 'The Artist's Way'.

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• Contact Anja and visit her website Anja Kersten - For a Magic World 
• Settle comfortably and listen in to Dreamy Cappuccino - Inspiring stories, musings & memoirs - beautiful quirky tales of wonder and delight!

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... and more podcast episodes with poetry, meditations and more! here on my Grace & Joy podcast.

Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Episode cover - Anja Kersten
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin'

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• Please see my intuitive painting site for the painting in full and for details of the Zoom workshops.

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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney

Episode cover - 'The mirror, the heart & the glowing bird' (detail) - intuitive painting
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting

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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney

Episode cover - 'Walking through the fields' - intuitive painting
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting

All content © 2020 Grace & Joy!

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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney

Episode cover - 'Play in colour and shape and a blue bird' - intuitive painting
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting

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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney

Episode cover - 'Reflections 1' - intuitive painting
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting

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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney

Episode cover - 'Morning rain & jackdaw' - intuitive painting
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting

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• Vimi is currently in the process of gently beginning her business again, of work centred around trauma resolution and if you would like to contact her, please email her at - vimladsharma.gmail.com

• The conversation starts at 2 mins 35 seconds in.

Wonderful takeaways:

• The wisdom of Ayurvedic medicine and tribal elders from a childhood in Nairobi.
• Massage skills passed down through the generations to Vimi, and her own children.
• 'If you're ever unhappy and you don't know what to do with your life, you always have your hands' - Vimi's mother's words.
• Meeting a homeopath and inner knowing - 'I will do this! And then I let go. The secret is, you kind of have to let go of the outcome'.
• Living as a series of 'mini deaths' along the way, as well as the literal.
• How trauma shapes our lives.
• 'I realised I was always looking outside of myself for home.'
• 'The Universe really colludes with you when the time is right - it is about Divine timing.'
• Innate wisdom and Knowing, beyond book learning. 'We are infinite Beings, infinite space'.
• 'I really always have had this innate knowing that everything is going to be ok.'
• On grief: 'The sea understood me, the sea never judged me...I felt that the sea was holding me, was nurturing me and I had to learn to be really gentle and kind to myself because I realised that I was my harshest critic.'
• The beauty and honour of craniosacral therapy - working in the sacredness... and the metaphor of the sea, tides and flow.
• 'I've had to go through the fear. I've made peace with the grief.'
• 'Somatically, we can a dialogue with it...and then release' - on our blocks.
• 'This is your work, take it to the West' - on the Shamanic Path in Peru.
• 'We have to remember who we are, we are children of the sun.'
• Sevika - 'Servant of God' - Vimi's spiritual name as given by Mooji - beautiful spirtual teacher/pointer.
• The Grief Recovery Method - an action programme that's also being taken into schools - about moving beyond loss.
• 'All the work I do is around trauma resolution, in a nutshell.'
• 'We are here to shine our light. We have to show our magnificence.'
• 'I can choose the path of going down the fear route, or I have a choice, and I can choose the love path.'
• 'This is my way of serving the whole.'

Contact Vimla on Vimladsharma@gmail.com 

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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Episode cover - Vimla Sharma ('Vimi on Zoom' x)
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin'

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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney

Episode cover - 'Charley dreaming' - quick watercolour sketch
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting

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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney

Episode cover - 'Night' - monotype
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting

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... and then a 5 min intuitive sketch, with crayons, on cardboard from an old catfood box, inspired by the poem x

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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney

Episode cover - 'Morning Poem - crayon on cardboard
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting

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• I have added a 7 min guided meditation of walking up the stairs to your room, here  
• I realised that this episode gives lots of great info about the visualisation, but not the visualisation itself :)

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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'
Artwork by Rowena Scotney

Episode cover - 'Colours on the Water' - oil on board
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting

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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass'

Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting
Episode cover - 'Return Energy to Sender' - intuitive painting

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• Meditation begins at 1min 12 secs

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Music by Podington Bear www.soundofpicture.com - 'Wavy Glass' and 'Floating in Space'

Artwork by Rowena Scotney
Podcast cover - 'Garden Robin’ felting

Episode cover - ‘White Owl flies into and out of the field’ - intuitive painting. Also inspired by a poem by Mary Oliver.

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• This is a first upload, a beginning tester... just to see! (and no overwhelm, despite my lack of tech savvy!)

• Also after editing my intro and outro in Audacity...trying to fade the music in and out and connect elements together...will improve :) 

I'll be creating a more podcast-style format as I learn and go along.

Thank you for tuning in :)

rowena

Please see more via my website Rowenascotney.com


* The wonderful music for the intro and outro is 'Wavy Glass' by Podington Bear Soundofpicture.com 

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