Wellbeing’s Write Prescription of One of my colleagues has written a bucket list the day of things she’d like to do in lockdown. But she’s done this within the five ways to Well today we wake up to a different reality. wellbeing. Write down what you would hope A new normal, one that we are all going to to achieve under the following headings. have to learn to abide. It is easy to think Connect, Stay Active, Give, Keep Learning and about all that we have lost in the midst of Take Notice. Taking notice is about finding calm and living in the present mindfully. lockdown. But it is important to remember hope. One of my favourite films is ‘The Or Shawshank Redemption’, an allegorical tale which ends with the words, ‘I hope’. Write down a reflection sandwich. In three Todays poem reminded me of that and makes parts consider the past, the present and the future. me consider the small treasures in every day. Joy is precious and always a possibility, if we  Write an elegy to the world we are allow it in. leaving behind Poem of the Day  A welcome to the ‘new normal’  A wish list for the world at the end The Point of this.

By Kate Tempest This blog has been written by Julie Chapman a Community Advisor for Wellbeing Suffolk. The days, the days they break to fade.

What fills them I’ll forget.

Every touch and smell and taste.

This sun, about to set,

Can never last. It breaks my heart.

Each joy feels like a threat:

Although there’s beauty everywhere,

Its shadow is regret.

Still, something in the coming dusk

Whispers not to fret.

Don’t matter that we’ll lose today.

It’s not tomorrow yet.

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