Clare Lavery
@clerotto.bsky.social
Creative writer, content creator ,Linguist ,trainer, activist Human Rights campaigner, Against all forms of violence against women & children Interested in systems reform & healing from trauma & adversity in education & communities Language Matters
Some afternoon walks are WHY walks Walking is a questioner's balm A process A figuring out An unknitting of cares & woes A working out which way to go A way to digest the new A path to letting go #DifficileDaDigerire #VentagliDParole I don't know Why youtu.be/GtOcxj3NDBI?...
The burning question on the day the clocks go forward. #ClocksForward #BritishSummerTime #DaylightSavingsTime
The Palm as symbol as a global series of protests for Peace fills our streets Millions The Palm of Christians on Palm Sunday We are here Not for a Perfect Life Not for anything but each other For our Love of Humanity We are Here youtu.be/HrKmDgk8Edg?... Palm Leaf - Matisse 1912
There you are isolated hiding in a corner with the darkest pieces no way can you see the Light No way can you imagine the bigger picture The picture that's so bright Share your pieces Open yourself to the Light
A key part of Recovery from betrayal or traumas A key lesson for you jigsaw players And those of us who help them No more going back to go forwards Take only the pieces that completed the bigger picture Nothing else
The wonderful part of coming out of the winter season A slow filling in of colour And new Life The excitement you feel as a jigsaw comes together Van Gogh- Irises jigsaw Durham fields in March
Taking a different route Switching routes Backtracking on your path Stopping to feed the birds Following your instincts Rewriting the Map All are permitted in Life All is forgiven Follow the routes destiny dictates #LungoStradeSecondarie
When Justice fails after violence It forces women & children down new paths The map of the 'Just World' is rewritten We are guided to keep the flame of hope alive For Others who follow down Paths unexpected Paths denied Follow the routes destiny dictates #LungoStradeSecondarie
Clare Lavery@clerotto.bsky.social · 5mo agoLife is one big Jigsaw puzzle And some pieces just fit When pieces are shaken up You may well find the corner the middle the key that completes a picture Connecting solves bigger puzzles To Help Others Stuck on the Puzzle youtu.be/K0YEVNacmtw?...
How much is Lost in Translation? The Jigsaw puzzle of communication How many words are needed? How many words unspoken? How many pieces missing? #TuPerMeSeiLunaEStelle #VentagliDiParole @VentagliP Nothing's Gonna Hurt you baby Lost in Translation youtu.be/qV_lcpLPZ8Q?...
For all the helpers For all the healers Leading to accompany around the wind Wherever it blows Whatever path you choose to take #EppureIlVentoSoffiaAncora #VentagliDiParole It's hard to get around the wind youtu.be/Y0gSkYaTZfQ?...
Life is one big Jigsaw puzzle And some pieces just fit When pieces are shaken up You may well find the corner the middle the key that completes a picture Connecting solves bigger puzzles To Help Others Stuck on the Puzzle youtu.be/K0YEVNacmtw?...
Clare Lavery@clerotto.bsky.social · 5mo agoFull circle affair Sitting in the access to justice chair How much systems are gamesmanship a puzzle to onlookers How getting the pieces in the wrong places messes up so many cases 'When Men on the chessboard get up And tell you where to go' Alice KNOWS youtu.be/TKZVUtvjBdM?...
One world we are Interconnected We cannot know the connections of other We make ourselves protagonist in a little corner While we are merely pieces In a much bigger picture We need each other 'One World' Mary Oliver
Full circle affair Sitting in the access to justice chair How much systems are gamesmanship a puzzle to onlookers How getting the pieces in the wrong places messes up so many cases 'When Men on the chessboard get up And tell you where to go' Alice KNOWS youtu.be/TKZVUtvjBdM?...
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." –Robert Frost Carlo Levi
There are many ways we 'See' people sometimes in a gesture Sometimes in a tone of voice Sometimes in their aura Sometimes in their eyes Sometimes... youtu.be/ejU5YAHN3vQ?... Follow the routes #LungoStradeSecondarie
We are energised by walks energised by Nature energised by music energised by song energised by Art energised by creativity Routes to well-being Routes to Soul healing Find your way #LungoStradeSecondarie Mussorgsky's 'Pictures At An Exhibition' 1874 youtu.be/yUfSstK3MOc?...
Time telescopes like the wings of a bird disappearing over the horizon Times flies like speeded up Northern skies while you were silently waiting unexpected paths close up new ones open without expectation While you were hesitating Time Flies youtu.be/UkJBS0Zazmw?... Take whatever comes to you
Pick up that key Take it Set your compass In the half-light While others sleep Follow the route destiny dictates #LungoStradeSecondarie Half Light youtu.be/dbKlESSDE6o?... Carlo Crivelli 1430 1495 Madonna carries the Key
So much can lay us bare Yet we have strength to survive anything In time of greatest threat? Don't take an obvious route lie low Investigate People will read your inaction as harmless While you silently grow Destiny dictates #LungoStradeSecondarie Lazarus youtu.be/3Lg0GXh31SE?...
If you take an alternative route It may test your patience In a World that expects a lot Hold on in there Slow and steady wins the race Follow the mountain pass Follow the routes destiny dictates #LungoStradeSecondarie Days Gone Down youtu.be/I_4T0czSPrg?...
'Tutto si calma di memoria e resta il confine più dolce della terra una lontana cupola di festa' 'Everything calms in memory's wake only the sweetest trace-edges remain as distant observance' Alfonso Gatto #BarriereFragili Di Tempi Perduti Night Night
We put on ourselves by creating pedestals If we think someone is perfect If we make mistakes we can’t confide in an Angel on a pedestal. We build our own barriers to Love #BarriereFragili youtu.be/iq8_1-t9MqU?...
With the #accesstojustice agenda on #IWD2026 we are looking to remove barriers for women & girls to become their best selves #CSW70 an un-becoming of who we have been expected to be since birth Divenire - L.Einaudi youtu.be/b8SkX9CSJQo?... Sundown in Durham Image
“In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because it suggests more than it declares.” ― Anthony Trollope writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity
Following sunlit paths A lone deer hesitant On the city’s verges But light years away Keep the darkness of this current world at bay Nature’s barrier protects #BarriereFragili
We are drawn to each other Magnets “I should feel the air move against me, & feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them..we can neither hear nor feel nor understand.” D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love #benedettaUmanità Gravity youtu.be/MB2F6nagjKs?...
Like seeds in a potting shed We grow With sunlight and watering We take up Space Then shatter the Walls Blossoming #BarriereFragili #VentagliDiParole The Glass House youtu.be/8md1m6C5Dvw?... Susanna Ussing- 'The Greenhouse' Image
Respect the effort. Support the progress. Not just on 1 day #IWD #8Marzo #8mars Respect & Progress. Not just on 1 day #IWD26 #IWD2026 #CSW70 #DomesticAbuse #CSA Nurture the flame 🔥 Bring Equity with Peace 🫒 Access to Justice for Women Access to Justice for their Children
Clare Lavery@clerotto.bsky.social · 6mo agoNot just one day Every day We live it We speak it We write it We sing it We nurture it
Not just one day Every day We live it We speak it We write it We sing it We nurture it
