Think and Drink: Wonder

For our new term, we’re approaching topics through a different ‘door’; a different ‘way in’. Our term’s themes are inspired by a poetry anthology exploring themes that get right to the core of us as humans- that which speaks most intimately to who we are. From this, we’ve picked a poem and a theme each session to explore. Do have a read of the poem beforehand if you have the time (they’re all short!). We’ll use this as a springboard to get our discussion going!

This week: WONDER
A way of seeing the world that lifts us beyond our ordinary experience? Perhaps as a child? Or a poet? Or seeing the world as it truly is? Or innocently without our haze of cycnism? Filled with happiness for all that is, without worry of future or regret of past. Is it an accurate vision or a clouded one? Does it remove the veil of this world to what it should be or will be or was? A feeling of connection of to something beyond ourselves? An enlarging of our own world as we see the true world?

"The Bright Field" by R.S. Thomas
'I have seen the sun break through
to illuminate a small field
for a while, and gone my way
and forgotten it. But that was the
pearl of great price, the one field that had
treasure in it. I realise now
that I must give all that I have
to possess it. Life is not hurrying

on to a receding future, nor hankering after
an imagined past. It is the turning
aside like Moses to the miracle
of the lit bush, to a brightness
that seemed as transitory as your youth
once, but is the eternity that awaits you.'

Come with your thoughts and questions. We'd love to hear your views! Feel free to share or just listen in!

Gathering at 7:30 for drinks and chat and then the main discussion begins at 7:45 and goes till 9 (ish!!).