Words of Inspiration

Words of Inspiration

There are people everywhere

Who, exactly just like you,

Understand the trials

And the pain you’re going through.

For, at some time in their lives

The have seen dark shadows fall

And have felt that there is no one

Who could answer to their call.

Yet, somehow they made it through

And found the strength within

To find acceptance of how things were

And to once again begin.

They are living proof that every cloud -

Even those of darkest grey -

All eventually pass by

To bring along a brand new day.

So, please just hang on in there

And keep tight hold of the belief

That beyond them there are rainbows

That very soon will bring relief.

These words were found and contributed to the newsletter by a Choices for Life project member.

Creative Writing

We just had another wonderful creative writing session here at Choices for Life. We were lucky enough to get talented writer Michael Edwards, who works for Creative Support in the North East to pop over and run a workshop that was inspired by food. We had a lot of fun final results that included Christmas dinner with a visit from a nun, a curry with Tommy Cooper and beer with Stephen Fry in Thailand. Hopefully we'll be able to share a few of the pieces once they are finalized and we look forward to working with Michael in the future on other creative writing projects!

Art Club

The Art Club have been producing some outstanding canvas work over the past few weeks with the aim being that once the Creative Cafe is opened that their work will be displayed on the walls. Inspired by the sea because of the vibrant colours and abstract shapes work was begun on paper using oil and soft pastels as well as acrylic to practice the use of composition, texture and colour (among other things!) before moving on to creating a canvas piece. With next week being the last week of canvas work it's obvious that we'll have an array of amazing artwork ready for when the cafe opens.

Also apologies for the lack of posts recently, we've all been so busy with the day service and sourcing content for our new monthly newsletter that we haven't had the chance to post!