When the Words Don't Come
I am a woman of words. What do we do when the words don't come? Write anyway...one word at a time - you write what is here.
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Sandra Hilton
Dec 21, 20235 min read
Loving and Leaving
December 2023 Soul Notes Photo by The Poetry Pharmacy I was mid-way through writing Soul Notes when I arrived at my Tuesday morning...
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Sandra Hilton
Nov 21, 20236 min read
Shadowing
November 2023 Soul Notes Photo by Gabriel Meinert on Unsplash Since 7 October, our gaze has been directed towards Israel and Gaza. From...
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Sandra Hilton
Sep 14, 20236 min read
Putting Down the Worry Beads
September 2023 Soul Notes Photo By Sandra Hilton I live in academic years. The body of the year starts in September and stretches to July....
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Sandra Hilton
Jun 29, 20235 min read
Carrier Bag Theory
June 2023 Soul Notes Thanks to Arisa Chattasa for this image: https://unsplash.com/@golfarisa Written in the Tao Te Ching over 2,000...
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Sandra Hilton
May 26, 20236 min read
What's the Question Looking at You?
May 2023 Soul Notes Photograph by Stetson University Newgrange Spiral; the threshold stone to Newgrange I’ve been in several...
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Sandra Hilton
Apr 6, 20235 min read
Taking my time...
March 2023 Soul Notes Art by Alexandra Warren, www.alexandrawarren.co.uk I have sat before this page for many days now. Staring blankly,...
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Sandra Hilton
Feb 10, 20235 min read
Finding Our Way Home
Feeling restless and wanting to wander... I understand this now as a longing to find a home, but what is homing?
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Sandra Hilton
Dec 21, 20225 min read
"What does this place know of me?"
December 2022 Soul Notes I’m thoughtful about place right now. I feel a restlessness in my bones and a longing to wander; to smell fresh...
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Sandra Hilton
Nov 10, 20224 min read
Sorting the Seeds
How to bring ourselves back to sensing, to love, and to ourselves through sorting our seeds.
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Sandra Hilton
Oct 14, 20229 min read
“It isn't the changes that do you in, it's the transitions.”
October 2022 Soul Notes Photograph by Aleksandr Barsukov made freely available on Unsplash Trough There is a trough in waves, A low spot...
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Sandra Hilton
Jul 15, 20225 min read
The Shape of Life
The Shape of Life considers life in its seismic and small shifts, and making space for grief and brokenness through its journey.
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Sandra Hilton
Jun 1, 20227 min read
Rebranding Selfishness
May 2022 Soul Notes “Remember when you were younger and you practiced kissing on your arm?” asks Pádraig Ó Tuama in his searingly...
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Sandra Hilton
Apr 29, 20226 min read
What's In Your Toybox?
April 2022 Soul Notes “So much of what delights and troubles you Happens on a surface You take for ground.” writes John O’Donohue in his...
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Sandra Hilton
Mar 25, 20225 min read
Patience
March 2022 Soul Notes Photo by Andrew Lloyd-Seetim As spring nudges those of us in the northern hemisphere into the world, how many of us...
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Sandra Hilton
Feb 11, 20225 min read
What Binds Us...
The theme of this month’s Soul Notes looks at what binds us. This piece ponders the question as restrictions loosen in the UK...
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Sandra Hilton
Jan 14, 20225 min read
I am no longer waiting...
January 2022 Soul Notes Thanks to Andrew Lloyd-Seetim for this image Mary Anne Perrone’s poem reminds us that life is for living. That...
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Sandra Hilton
Dec 17, 20215 min read
A Letter to the Judge
December 2021 Soul Notes “This is the season to go home far within” …… “as I wrap myself in winter silence and curl into its rooty...
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Sandra Hilton
Nov 5, 20214 min read
Salsa in the Time of CoVid
Autumn 2021 Soul Notes This week, I returned to working face to face with some of my therapy clients. It’s been a plan long in the...
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Sandra Hilton
Oct 1, 20216 min read
The Naming of Things
Sandra muses on the Naming of Things and shares wisdom from the imitable Aldous Huxley.
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