Sarah, there seems to be a conscious or subconscious theme to your wanderings today. What with organs going up and down, fig leaves sparing blushes and things going on behind closed curtains.
I did find myself wondering about those moans emanating from below the tiger.
Enough of my musings, your walk reminded me of one of my favourite walks in Cadiiz along a shoreline dominated by a couple of trees enjoined in an arboreal embrace, leaves dropping as nature takes its course. Dogs and their owners love them and often pay their respects and spend time there.
My first pet was a dog called Mischief who once won a string of sausages as a prize. Later in life I had a gorgeous cockapoo called Paco who would wander around bedchambers and steal single socks.
I wrote about my trees in a different 26 project here
Thanks for this post. I'd been thinking about using objects in our local museum as poem prompts this year and this has definitely inspired me to do something about it!
That sounds like a brilliant idea. I've helped out on a few creative projects like that – for both charities and a not-for-profit org. Funnily enough, one was for the V&A's Museum of of Childhood in Bethnal Green (now called Young V&A). I can share some info, if you think it'd be interesting/helpful?
It looks like the website/pages for the projects I was thinking of aren't live anymore, which is a shame.
The project you might find interesting was called 26 Treasures of Childhood (www.26.org.uk/articles/news-from-26/articles-26-treasures-of-childhood). It was a collaboration between writers' organisation 26, east London charity Ministry of Stories (https://ministryofstories.org) and the V&A Museum of Childhood (now called Young V&A). The museum had an exhibition called Modern Childhood and 26 writers, including several children who were mentored by the Ministry of Stories, were invited to contribute by writing about some of the objects displayed in the exhibition. Each writer was paired with an object that represented the era when they were a child and they were asked to write a sestude in response. A sestude is exactly 62 words long - a creation of 26, it's the number 26 in reverse. I'm a member of 26 and also volunteered with the Ministry of Stories as a writing mentor, so I helped run a series of writing workshops with the children and supported them while they wrote their responses to the objects they'd been paired with. It was a fab project and the children's sestudes were exceptional.
Sarah, there seems to be a conscious or subconscious theme to your wanderings today. What with organs going up and down, fig leaves sparing blushes and things going on behind closed curtains.
I did find myself wondering about those moans emanating from below the tiger.
Enough of my musings, your walk reminded me of one of my favourite walks in Cadiiz along a shoreline dominated by a couple of trees enjoined in an arboreal embrace, leaves dropping as nature takes its course. Dogs and their owners love them and often pay their respects and spend time there.
My first pet was a dog called Mischief who once won a string of sausages as a prize. Later in life I had a gorgeous cockapoo called Paco who would wander around bedchambers and steal single socks.
I wrote about my trees in a different 26 project here
https://26project.org.uk/26trees/?p=66
Paul
There's definitely something intriguing about hidden corners and concealed secrets. They make for great stories!
26 Trees was a brilliant project. Thanks for sharing your lovely piece, and your walks in Cadiiz.
Thanks for this post. I'd been thinking about using objects in our local museum as poem prompts this year and this has definitely inspired me to do something about it!
That sounds like a brilliant idea. I've helped out on a few creative projects like that – for both charities and a not-for-profit org. Funnily enough, one was for the V&A's Museum of of Childhood in Bethnal Green (now called Young V&A). I can share some info, if you think it'd be interesting/helpful?
That'd be great, thank you 🙂
It looks like the website/pages for the projects I was thinking of aren't live anymore, which is a shame.
The project you might find interesting was called 26 Treasures of Childhood (www.26.org.uk/articles/news-from-26/articles-26-treasures-of-childhood). It was a collaboration between writers' organisation 26, east London charity Ministry of Stories (https://ministryofstories.org) and the V&A Museum of Childhood (now called Young V&A). The museum had an exhibition called Modern Childhood and 26 writers, including several children who were mentored by the Ministry of Stories, were invited to contribute by writing about some of the objects displayed in the exhibition. Each writer was paired with an object that represented the era when they were a child and they were asked to write a sestude in response. A sestude is exactly 62 words long - a creation of 26, it's the number 26 in reverse. I'm a member of 26 and also volunteered with the Ministry of Stories as a writing mentor, so I helped run a series of writing workshops with the children and supported them while they wrote their responses to the objects they'd been paired with. It was a fab project and the children's sestudes were exceptional.
Hope this is useful in some way!
Yes, thank you. Lots of things to think about!
My pleasure. Happy to help 😊
Thanks for the restack!