Tag: art therapy

Colouring Between the Lines: For Anne

Colouring Between the Lines For Anne A Free Verse Reflection   Anne brings the world into focus; her careful hands select each crayon like a memory, the coral blush of a peony vase, the iridescent red of a ruby-throated hummingbird, the soft blue of the scarf a friend knit for winter’s bite. She picks her..

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Colouring her world

Colouring her world   A victim of glioblastoma, a highly aggressive, incurable form of brain cancer, my beloved Anne has become obsessed with colouring, which propels her into a world of complex beauty and symmetry.   Here we see Anne colouring with Latifa, her personal support worker (PSW). Colouring is a calming and therapeutic activity,..

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