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Winter Reading Challenge

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I'm doing Winter Reading Challenge for Dementia UK

This winter, I'm reading and raising funds to help ensure no family faces dementia alone. I'm taking on the challenge for Dementia UK, the specialist dementia nursing charity, and would be grateful for your support.

Your donation, big or small, makes a difference. £33 could fund a new dementia specialist Admiral Nurse to spend an hour helping a family in the community, offering practical solutions and emotional support to cope with their loved one’s distressed behaviour.

Thank you!

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Thursday 8th Oct
Hello. I am a creative writer from Wales with a new poetry book called WALKING WITH GHOSTS out on Amazon on October 20th. The book covers a number of themes, including memory and loss. Therefore I thought it a fitting time to set a new fundraising challenge for myself to coincide with the book launch and try to raise a small amount for Dementia UK charity, a cause close to our family’s heart. 💔

I plan to read  a few pages in the evenings and swap scrolling for page turning. I’m going to use this time to catch up on some books that have been on my ‘must-read’ list for a while. 

Before I begin, I would like to share  an extract from my poem about dementia, called UNRAVELLING.
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The full version of the poem is in the new book.

UNRAVELLING
we can have a laugh
about the spilled juice
and the socks in the fridge

yet somewhere 
in it all
very quietly

you
are slipping away

and we
are
u-n-r-a-v-e-l-l-i-n-g,

unknotting
from the ties that bind
that knit us
to this world.

I realise
this thing has direction

slowly
slipping you backwards

drawing us all
backwards

s-d-r-a-w-k-c-a-b
on repeat

saying it
again
agai
aga …

©️JKWatkins@KittyJayMusicandPoetry