with tea comes hope...(Lockdown 2)
The Covid 19 tea and postcard project today transitions to 'with tea comes hope.' Both projects involve drinking tea and the act of writing. The first was more outwardly focused. The second will involve a journal, and thus be more inwardly reflective. Each post, in its own small way, acts as a reminder of a moment, someone, a thought, a happening, an event...
I wonder what the trees will tell people in 1000 years time
I wonder what the trees will tell people in 1000 years time
12th August 2020
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| the tea cupboard of hope |
13th August 2020
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| flash flooding leaves me ankle deep in water |
whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like. (David Sedaris)
14th August 2020
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| I actually looked at all the blood which had, only moments before, been circulating round my body... |
15th August 2020
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| that the rain will stop... |
16th August 2020
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| TV channel hopping took me to mind reading and suggestive magic which featured hope on so many levels... |
17th August 2020
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| preparation for sowing and planting |
18th August 2020
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| today I began to send further cards to those who received cards as part of the Covid 19 tea project... this new card requests the recipient send an email with their suggestion as to why I should have hope... |
19th August 2020
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| #annual leave #stay-cation #more rain #dentist injections trigger recall of trauma #student existence... |
20th August 2020
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| today I saw my dad for the first time in 6 months |
21st August 2020
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| #nightmare #railway sleepers #stormy wind #it's the weekend |
22nd August 2020
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| Saturday evening wine replaces afternoon tea... once in a while |
23rd August 2020
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| a tough study Sunday and the first response; one that helps me navigate difficult head demons... |
having hope is thinking of the future, something that hasn't yet happened but the idea that it will... hope will bring new opportunities, plans, lists... hope is wanting something good for yourself or others, it's a positive wish, a sign you care... (recipient number 2 & 58 in the previous project)
24th August 2020
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| hello to the name I have always been called being the name on my official documentation... |
25th August 2020
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| #a very late night - morning tea very much needed - return to evening ballet coaching... |
(donald calne - neurologist)
26th August 2020
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| #breakfast out - was, it appears, an eat out to help out ... |
It is a driving force that you possess, and use it to full advantage. Onwards dear friend!!!
(from the recipient of cards 11&66)
27th August 2020
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| #writing structure #obsessive day at the keyboard |
(elizabeth gilbert)
28th August 2020
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| #rain #walking boots #research #tea |
You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense
29th August 2020
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| #chainsaw #garden foundations #north wind and rain = soup making #mud mud mud #vision |
flowers grow out of dark moments
30th August 2020
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| #making the cats safe #more mud #tidying and cleaning |
to dance is to understand everything
31st August 2020
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| #study_paint_garden_repeat |
someday we'll find it - the rainbow connection...
1st September 2020
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| #a sad Gyspy cat day #hypertension & blindness #daily medication a challenge with such a feisty lady |
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope” (Rev. Dr Martin Luther King Jr)
(from the recipient of cards number 20 & 74)
2nd September 2020
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| #hot water bottle #formative assessments #essay impasse #Berlin on Board... the natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope |
3rd September 2020
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Method of Quantification in Osteoarchaeological and Taphonomic Analysis using Early Neolithic Human Remains from Yorkshire Cave Burials... today I learned of this project, and a little bit about it...#teams PG2020 UClan...
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hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers
(robert g. ingersol)
4th September 2020
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| #Zoom - Teams - Skype #preparation #research just went up a whole new level #better get prepared |
what we call our despair is often the painful eagerness of unfed hope...
(george elliot)
5th September 2020
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| #change of location after 175 days... it feels good to be lost in the right direction 6th September 2020  the hope had been we would have these kind of views 7th September 2020  they say it is always the foggiest the closer it gets... 8th September 2020  after a day of walking everything has twice its usual value 9th September 2020  the hope is hands face space 10th September 2020  I realise that a few weeks ago, when the weather was warmer and the evenings were longer, the sunsets were lovely and promised me warmth and a new day with hope and anticipation that the hours stretching ahead would bring good news and connections or reconnections with people. These sunsets made me positive and want to greet the following day; they made my anxiety soften. There have of course been many items on the news when I have seen the positive outcomes of peoples' actions that have given me hope for the human race. So I realise that this is divided somehow between the personal and the universal... but the sunset is good for both! (from the recipient of cards 14 & 72) 11th September 2020 the absence of a card indicative of many things... so i paint a picture #drinking hot water #under the weather #full on training day #research meetings #very tearful #better things (series 4) 12th September 2020  we do have to have a wish - i don't mean that kind of impossible hope - but we do have to have some image of what we want to go towards, because that guides us... (anaïs nin) 13th September 2020 
#homemade coleslaw #garden pottering #dance class shenanigans #ready for school feeling
hopeful i will find a way that feels true and dances from the inside out
14th September 2020
 #head down the long haul to Christmas #special interest research group #G&T not Tea there are no mistakes - only lessons 15th September 2020  every artist is first and amateur (ralph waldo emerson) 16th September 2020  Because... You have time and a beautiful space to drink and enjoy tea and contemplate / reflect / day dream...and in these moments you can find strength to harness hope and hopeful ideas. Even if at times we feel hopeless, when we overcome that downward spiral its hope that lifts us out of it. You give me hope when we chat. (recipient of cards 4 & 59 - reconnected with IPA)  tomorrow - a new opportunity 18th September 2020  red hair, sir, in my opinion is dangerous 19th September 2020 #pottering #cooking #scones #allotment #T for Tiger, T for tea, You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough... (c.s. lewis) 20th September 2020 #d for birthday #brunch #walk #tea and cake #class #exhausted you can't stop getting older, but you don't have to get old (george burns) 21st September 2020events of the morning of this day were such that all notions of tea and photographs were completely forgotten - the hope required is that someone will be empathetic to the error I made which led to a fine i am not responsible for, but for now have had to pay ... and I will be reimbursed the money (it was a lot) 22nd September 2020
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