Heart

During these last few months of moving home, I've had to step back from the Soar Valley Dementia Project. I went back last week. A gathering of people who recognise each other and connect across our isolation: that's so powerful. Its power reaches beyond the individuals and the group, out to a wider community. We can allow ourselves to change and to be changed, through tears and laughter.

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Heart

Here we are not famous

but we are known.

Here we are not important

but we matter.

Here when we reach out

we can be found.

When the pebbles of us

drop into the lake,

there are ripples.

When the flat stones skim

once, twice, three times,

the water leaps to meet us.

Here, whatever we have lost,

the heart never forgets.