Week 4:
Task 1: Write a story in 5 lines on one of the following topics 1. Grief 2. Love 3. The kindness of a stranger 4. Sickness 5. Peeling an orange
Story 1: The kindness of a ‘stranger’
I sat in the corner of my room, all the reasons why I should end it here and now ran around inside my head. The door creeped open and a small figure tiptoed inside, glancing around until her eyes found me. She unfurled her right palm handing me the object that was inside ‘I made this just for you’ her voice uttered, barely a whisper. Tears pricked the corners of my eyes as I read the inside of the note. ‘I love you’ it said
Story 2: love
Green vines wrapped around bark pulling tight and holding it close, a toxic embrace gripping around a lifeline. I love you it whispered, I need you it screamed, keep me close and don’t let go. You are the reason why I am alive and you are the reason I continue to thrive, climbing up into warm sunlight to breathe and then crawl back to the comfort of shadows
Task 2: ‘Map’, photograph or sketch exactly what is on the table in front of you.
Week 5:
Task: go on a 45 minute walk and draw a map of where you go