Young Friends

Catherine Henderson suggests some seasonal activities

Looking closely

When did you last go for a walk – not to get anywhere in particular, not to go from A to B, but just to linger and look? Most of the time we are in too much of a hurry; late for school perhaps, or rushing to a rehearsal or a football match. The Welsh poet WH Davies, in his poem ‘Leisure’, asks what life is all about if we can’t find time occasionally to ‘stand and stare’? If we look we may see ‘streams full of stars’, perhaps in a canal or even a puddle.

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