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Sunday, 5 January 2025

2025 Session 1, Week 1

The Three Magi, Byzantine mosaic c. 565 from Ravenna, Creative Commons, chosen for no other reason than that I liked it (and thought the medievalists might)

 Happy New Year, everyone and welcome to the first session of 2025! There won't be a theme as such, as I don't have the imagination and creative streak of other session hosts. Instead, I will make things up as I go along, with prompts vaguely inspired by particular dates, the seasons changing, and any other random ideas that come along.

For this first session, please feel free to introduce yourselves, especially anyone new (we would love new people to join), and post some goals for the session and for this first week back. Following the pattern of previous sessions, we'll run for 14 weeks, which takes us up to w/c 7th April. Hopefully that works for people. It fits very nicely with (school) term dates here.

If people would like a prompt for the session, today is the eve of Epiphany. In Spain, where half my family is from, Epiphany is the day for gifts, traditionally brought by the three Kings. The evening before, the kings process through the streets and kids go out to meet them. So let's think about gifts. In the absence of strange men bringing gold, frankincense and myrrh, we may have to be the givers as well as the receivers. What can you gift yourself this session? Doesn't have to be a pile of money, incense or soothing oils, though all of those sound nice, and doesn't have to be three things, but something that fits with being kind to yourself as we slog through winter.

Wednesday, 1 January 2025

Best wishes for 2025!

 Hello everyone!

Just wanted to pop in and send everyone all the best for 2025, may it be filled with joy and peace and fun!

Hope your holiday season has been restorative even with the inevitable ups and downs, and that you have had plenty of time with friends, family, cats, good books, and many cups of tea!

Daisy