Caro Woods MA

Have Horse, Will Travel: 10 Things to Consider Before Hitting the Trail

By: Caro Woods July 1, 2020July 3, 2020

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Someone once asked me, ‘why don’t you just position your horse in the direction of travel and let him find the best way home’? Well that’s all very well and good, and if he is familiar with the territory then he will know exactly where to go. But there is the thorny question of how…

Keys to Pilgrimage

By: Caro Woods June 22, 2020July 4, 2020

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Be Creative: That is the number one challenge I set myself in ‘7 Steps back to Health’. For me the question is: do I lock myself away in my studio making ‘art’ works? Or do I knuckle down to finishing my book? The answer, of course, is both. But one at a time. And…

Food for Thought

By: Caro Woods May 22, 2020May 23, 2020

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Caro’s Covid Journal No 4 (11 weeks post op / 9 weeks post lockdown) Warning: This post might tickle your taste buds!! ‘Through the Wound comes the Salve, We can find meaning in suffering.’ Who was it who said that? This morning, I went to hug my ash tree. It is a magnificent tree and…

7 Steps back to Health

By: Caro Woods April 7, 2020April 23, 2020

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Coronavirus Journal No. 3. (5 weeks post op). As promised, I would like to share with you the 7 simple steps I have devised for my journey back to health, joy, vitality and wellbeing. Each one will be explored in more detail in the following posts as I dive deeper into the mechanics of…

Torn Apart

By: Caro Woods April 1, 2020April 10, 2020

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Whilst I was contemplating this, my next post (Coronavirus Journal, no 2, four weeks post surgery), I happen to turn my back for a moment and discover Willo in the process of destroying one of the envelopes on which I had written some random thoughts. Notes that reflect a stream of consciousness in preparation for…

Home Alone in the time of Coronavirus

By: Caro Woods March 23, 2020March 23, 2020

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Strictly speaking I am not home alone. My two whippets are constant companions. Their playful antics keep me amused and there is an unspoken, unconditional love and understanding between us. Even in this early stage of self-isolation, we live together in complete harmony and unlike us humans, their daily life has not changed at all.…

The Book: the journey to publication, *1.

By: Caro Woods February 11, 2019

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The first 15,000 words of ‘The Rainbow Ribbon Way’ have gone off to The Literary Consultancy (Manuscript Assessment and Editorial Advice) for its first edit. This has only been possible thanks to a ‘Free Read’ scheme offered by Literature Works, a charity that helps ‘support creative writing and the development of writers and readers of…

Instagram

By: Caro Woods September 25, 2018January 31, 2019

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It’s taken a few years but finally I am embracing the phenomenon that is Instagram! https://www.carowoods.pilgrimartist My first post was a ‘trial’ photo of my whippet, Tami, and there it languished in solitary confinement for 4 years until September this year. Then I began to post a few pictures of what I was getting up…

How to unlock the magic of the everyday

By: Caro Woods March 13, 2018January 31, 2019

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‘I love autumn and winter more. Something opens up in me then – something soft and deep and glowing – which is far too shy to expose itself to the inexhaustible light of summer.’ Sharon Blackie, The Enchanted Life.

Book of Poetry

By: Caro Woods February 10, 2018January 31, 2019

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I got a lovely surprise the other day when this book of poetry arrived in the post. Emily Benton from The School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia had been trawling through some images on line in search of something to put on the front cover for their current…