Running Away And Writing About It

Early morning meditation, write in a room overlooking the sea, lunch in the sun, then a walk down to the cove for a swim...   photo-patchwork includes Sarah Maxwell teaching me gently to sit up straight - Sarah runs fitness weeks for Bloom  http://www.bloomretreats.com/bloom-fitness.html and in five days she worked wonders on my body and my self-esteem. Read more about it here: http://www.elainekingett.co.uk/blog/?p=378High50.comThe 50+ market used to signify Saga, with all the attendant associations of  Judith Chalmers beaming on a stair-lift and silhouetted, heterosexual couples living it up in evening dress on moonlit cruises. In the media, everyone over 50 had neatly styled grey hair and the back pages of magazines, such as Woman&Home,  were stuffed with ads for Velcro-fastening shoes and prongey-things to get biscuits out from the back of the sofa. Or vibrators described as back massagers.Well - hello to http://www.high50.com/, a website that has actually caught up with the life I lead as a woman over 50. Or 60. And here's the piece I wrote for them on the Writing, Walking and Mindfulness retreats I run for Lynne Franks http://www.bloomretreats.com/bloom-creative-writing.html in Deia, Mallorca.Walking, Writing and Mindfulness...and eating good food. Four activities that are proven to help us stay fit, heathy and relatively sane until we're kicking up the daises.http://www.high50.com/blog50/come-and-write-at-lynne-franks-villaThere comes a time when we all need to run away , write down our dreams and nightmares and let someone else take care of the fall-out.I  can do that, come and join me on April 27thlove and stuffx