ivory, floats, pearls…
We journeyed with these 3 words over the fortnight.
What words stands out for you? Where does it take you?
Hope you enjoy these expressions for the week (a couple using all 3 words!)
Visit our events calendar for the sessions, that take place on the first and third Monday of the month.
Hope to see you at a session.
Next fortnights’s words are: bedtime…trimming…bananas…
We journeyed with these 3 words over the fortnight.
What words stands out for you? Where does it take you?
Hope you enjoy these expressions for the week (a couple using all 3 words!)
Visit our events calendar for the sessions, that take place on the first and third Monday of the month.
Hope to see you at a session.
Next fortnights’s words are: bedtime…trimming…bananas…
Just for the thrill
Who thinks it’s ok to kill
Wild elephants
Just for the thrill
The ivory steal
How ugly the thought
Is that what is taught
That just for fun
It’s ok to use a gun
And then there’s the tale
of the blue whale
killed because of greed
Is their oil really such a need
And then just for a pearl
Oysters shells are affected
Even though they say they are protected
But now these industries
Are changing the chemistry
Of the land and the sea
Where is the sovereignty ?
How can we, for our own desire
Change the entire
Ecology
To use and abuse
To such a degree as we
can now see
By the dead fish and algae
Where do we start
How far back do we go
To show how gloat
That ‘floats your boat’
Has led to this!
No it’s not bliss
Rather a disaster!
Something is amiss
So let’s give these creatures
A safe place and home
So that they can
become free to roam
Because the more aware
And care we bring
The more our hearts
can truly sing
TLaB 1st September 2025
And all that Jazz
Gagging smoke floats in the air
Locals mesmerised by the bass
Trumpet saxophone
And vigorous fingers
Gliding over ivory keys
Four gifted friends follow their passion
The music is soul searching
The sounds are so exclusive
Regulars flock from all around
To such a small venue underground
In that basement the beat is unique
What a pearl of a song
As they all jam along
Till the wee small hours
When the sun has long gone
CCon 1.09.25
A Pearl in their Palm
Did you know that in China,
if parents truly love their daughter,
we don’t say she’s “the apple of their eye”?
Instead, we say she is 掌上明珠 – literally, a pearl in their palm.
But growing up, I never felt like that.
My dad rarely spent time with me,
and I was convinced,
I was just a blade of grass resting in his hand.
Recently, though, my perspective has shifted
Thanks to learning about the six love languages and my last two visits to China.
When I desperately needed money to travel to Europe,
Dad quietly handed me some money without me even asking.
This surprised me,
because he had always said,
“Once you turn 18, you shouldn’t ask your parents for money anymore.”
Another time,
after hearing my uncle mention the kind of lollies his daughter bought for her colleagues,
Dad came home with a bag of those exact lollies for me.
Yes, these are small gestures – practical, material things.
Not my favourite kind of love.
But somehow, they touched me deeply.
They told me: he listened.
And in that listening, I felt his care.
That was priceless.
XQZ 1.09.25