Please support Northorpe Hall Charitable Trust to continue to offer a valued service to Young people across Kirklees
I’ve started an online campaign to get people to show their support for the counselling service and protect it from the cuts. It uses iPetitions. Please pass it on to anyone and everyone who might support it.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/youthcounsellingnorthorpe/
Please sign this petition.
If you are able to put a few comments in – perhaps saying what difference the service has made to you or someone you know, that would be great. Please also say how you know of the service.
Tom Taylor
Director, Northorpe Hall Trust
Direct line: 01924 481555 Mob: 07760753095 Office Tel: 01924 492183 Fax: 01924 492034
Northorpe Hall, 53 Northorpe Lane, Mirfield, WF14 0QL
www.northorpehall.co.uk
Registered charity 241856.
Don’t just look OBSERVE
Don’t just swallow TASTE
Don’t just sleep DREAM
Don’t just think FEEL
Don’t just exist LIVE
Here we are again the beginning of another year . A question always asked what are your resolutions for this New year? What promises do you make to yourself and how do you strive to achieve them?
I am very aware a year has passed since my friend and colleague Kate died but yet it seems like a blink of an eye . Concept of time is in the eye of the beholder .
I am sure for some the year will have dragged itself out, for others time will have stood still and for others time will have run out before managing to achieve what was set out towards.
I am conscious that for me in knowing people whose lives that have ended prematurely and those that are currently in the beginning of their personal journey after learning that their life is to be cut short makes me acknowledge that the majority of us trust that we will live till we are old and it is only when those in our inner circles are effected by sudden death or terminal illness that we stand back and wobble as we come to terms with our own mortality.
The impact for me is to ask what is really important to me? and what do I need to do? what needs to be in place ? My realization that I miss out on so much that is happening in the moment by rushing past it to strive to be more or to constantly analyse what has gone to see how I may do it different in the future but yet what does that look like and how will I know when I am there and what if I don’t get the opportunity as my life ends early all the while missing out on know .
Then I get back to trusting that I will be ok and my resolution is to be in the moment more and to have those dreams that spur me forward but not get lost in the planning but to have them as a light to guide me. Finding the balance between self care and giving to others .To ask for my needs to be met and not be afraid to take measured risks.
What does 2011 mean for you?
How can you make it count?
What do you hope for?
How do you steer yourself towards that place ?
Kate left this post to be published after her death.
“……and a little child shall lead them….” (Isaiah 11:6)
The painting on the left has become my icon, a personal reflection of inner movement as I struggle with a search for meaning. Lost in a wilderness. As a fledging eaglet, in 2001, I blindly launched myself from the familiarity of a thirty year marriage, into mid-air. This canvas became my backbone, a changing landscape which demanded I be an alchemist: bringing forth an inner vision on an earthly plain. I have not yet succeeded, but here I draw line. The painting is not rewarded by praise, only by challenge and engagement. Even that has the complication of language and interpretation.
After moving with the icon from rented accommodation to the first home I ever owned, the two flying eagles lost their dominance, the eggs cracked open to reveal three little eaglets. Sometime after this, whilst working with a group of adult survivors of childhood rape and abuse, it was noted that what I painted as the Tree of Life was seen to be the back of a child’s head. How was I going to survive in the wilderness with eaglets and a small child? Even a little Mouse, a survivor’s important child part, lived on the painting, not too far from the hungry eaglets – predator versus prey.
Out of this grew a huge figure, that you see now. She no longer stands naked. Her Celtic beliefs of availability, vulnerability and acceptance are integrated within her. She, who is I, accept that my death will be shortly here. I see the after life through a glass darkly (1 Corinthians 13).
Love to you all.
14 February 1949 – 17 January 2010.
In Memoriam: Kate Squires 1949-2010
Kate died on Sunday 17th January 2010
Gone but not forgotten
She holds a place in our hearts for the support, love, friendship and care she gave.
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