Tag: puzzles

Pieces of Our Love: Life’s Puzzle for Anne

Pieces of Our Love: Life’s Puzzle for Anne   Each day, Anne turns the cardboard squares over, edges searching for edges, her fingertips remembering the shape of wholeness long before the picture is clear. Puzzles are her refuge now, when words sometimes stumble and days dissolve, unthreading their careful patterns. She fits colour to colour,..

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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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