Holidays or holy days

HOLIDAYS OR HOLY DAYS?

I hope you all enjoyed the festive season and that you thought of some good ideas to help the environment while you were at it. The best part for me was a five day meditation retreat, with a view from the balcony of miles and miles of trees and then mountains. It was put on by the Transcendental Meditation movement. It included a great deal of meditation and also a Refresher Course, yoga instruction and a great number of videos of Maharishi.

Those on retreat.

Retreat

It was lovely not to have to cook and I made friends with a number of people. I sold four copies of Transfigured Sea, what’s more, because those people are interested in Nature and spirituality. I also recommended that they look me up on YouTube, just search for Sally Ann Hunter. There are interviews with me about Transfigured Sea and a beautiful video with the help of AI.

My spiritual development went ahead in leaps and bounds. This was partly from a conversation I had over a meal with a new friend and from very soft meditations and from achieving a goal in my meditation program, and from removing a very big stress.

Five days was just the right amount for me. I also spent time with family, went for a walk in the local Botanical Gardens and visited the National Gallery of Victoria.

Poetry

I shared poetry with an unexpected person, which reminds me that a new poetry group is starting soon in Blackwood, South Australia. It’s called Poetry Warblers because of the wonderful coloratura warbling of our local magpies. It will be about both reading and writing poetry and the first meeting is on the third Tuesday of the month, 18 th February, 2025. The venue also houses the Blackwood Library and the local Community Centre and is called Tiwu Kumangka.

Tiwu is the local indigenous people’s name for a very special black cockatoo, which is returning to the area. Kumangka means “coming together” as we will be doing in Poetry Warblers.

I send you all the very best energy for 2025. May your dearest wishes come true and your holidays be as fruitful as mine.