SacIONS August Meeting: John Fox, Poet Therapist - The Light We Let In

THE LIGHT WE LET IN
(and a creative way to spread it around!)

A talk and mini-workshop by John Fox, CPT

Celestial bodies radiate and reflect light:
sun blazes with fire, moon glows with grace.

Through imhttp://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/1/8/6/2/event_130926242.jpegages and metaphor of poetry, we are stirred inside with an awareness that experiences of light also are accessible inwardly to heal and empower us, to lift us up, to remind us that we take part in that sacred fire, that beautiful grace.

By expressing ourselves through poem-making and by listening to one another in that process -- we learn how to feel, intuit and trust these interior moments of radiance and reflection.

John Fox, a friend and frequent visitor to the Sacramento IONS Community Group, will bring inspiration and useful tools
for you to experience this. No previous experience with poetry is necessary. Anyone interested in how light helps us grow and in the healing potential of the arts is welcome!

WINDOW TREATMENTS

Light pours through
bare windows once
draped in coral
peau de soie swags.

Sunlight warms the
new maple floor,

shines on the walnut
dining room table
once kept in the dark.
So it will last.
And it has.
Lasted.

Now it stands bare
in bright morning light
Revealing its grain.

Carol Howard Wooton

THERE IS AN ORIGIN

For each true poem born there is an origin:
Blessed ignorance of words that turn
To splendid fire, as stars in space will yearn
To find on earth their upstretched twin.

John Fox

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Questions: ions@sacions.org or 916-364-0718