Brae Riach Press
GLEN MORISTON
Author of the Heirloom Colouring and Reflection Books
Words on the left page. An illustration on the right.
Section i
Healing is not delivered to you.
It is already in you.
A mind too watchful will not let it move. A river does not clear because you stir it. It clears because you leave it alone.
Section ii · The Way In
The thinking mind cannot be argued with.
It can be given something to do.
The part of you carrying the problem is the same part refusing to set it down. So we do not ask it to. We give the hands a patient thing to do — a line, a leaf, an edge of cloth — and the front of the mind goes willingly to that work. What is left is quieter and far older than you, and knows this ground better than we do.
Section iii · How a Page Works
Four movements,
then the page is yours.
i
The Line
An enduring passage, offered plainly.
ii
Melodic Insight
The same passage, opened, and closed with an image rather than an argument.
iii
Reflection
A question, and room for what it awakens.
iv
The Facing Page
An illustration created to hold colour beautifully.
Section iv · The Books
A quiet shelf,
gathered without hurry.
DESIDERATA
An Heirloom Colouring and Reflection Book. Published.
IF
An Heirloom Colouring and Reflection Book. In preparation.
[title to come]
In preparation.
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In preparation.
THE HEALING WALK
In preparation.
Section v · For Those Who Sit With Others
The work continues
without a voice in the room.
Therapists, counsellors, chaplains and teachers use these pages between sessions. Enquiries for multiple copies are welcome.
Section vi · A Message from Glen
A door that would not open,
and the way past it.
I did not set out to make colouring books. I set out to find a way past a door that would not open.
The mind holding a thing is usually the mind least willing to release it. Ask it directly and it tightens. Ask it instead to follow the edge of a leaf for twenty minutes, and it forgets to stand guard.
What comes forward then is not new. It has been waiting. It is patient, and it does not need my help — only my silence, and yours.
So the left page speaks, and then it stops. The right page asks nothing at all. Somewhere between the two, if you are unhurried, the work does itself.
Stay a while.
— Glen Moriston
Section vii · Letters
What readers write,
once they have set the book down.
“I have not sat still for years. Twenty minutes with one page and something in me unclenched. [Placeholder letter — to be replaced.]”
“We leave a copy in the waiting room. People finish a page before they finish speaking. [Placeholder letter — to be replaced.]”
“It is the first book I have wanted to keep on the table rather than on the shelf. [Placeholder letter — to be replaced.]”
Section viii
Keep close what helps you
hear yourself.
Occasional letters from Brae Riach Press. No noise.