It’s a bit late, but Happy New Year! I have something exciting to share with you today. First though, apologies for the lack of updates; it’s been a hard and unpleasant year so far. I have been plugging away with fundraising through videos on social media, mainly YouTube (this is my channel: https://youtube.com/@jenny.rowbory ) and TikTok (here: https://www.tiktok.com/@jennyrowbory ) and Instagram (here: https://www.instagram.com/jennyrowbory ), where it is an uphill struggle to try and build a platform and community, so I’d appreciate any follows and engagement on those accounts to help with the algorithms, and therefore with fundraising! I mainly talk about books, films and TV on those accounts and I usually end each video with a fundraising message.
There is a bigger fundraising plan in the works coming later this month since I am turning 40 years old at the end of April and I’m desperate to reach the target fundraising amount by then. So we’re going to have a big push before then (the idea is tied in with the number 40!) and we’ll let you know more about the plan soon.
For today though, I have a new video of a duo of original poems by me, collectively called ‘Suite of the Moon and Sun’. It is here on YouTube:
Individually the poems are called ‘When Winchester Cathedral swallowed the moon’ and ‘When Winchester Cathedral swallowed the sun’. I hope that you find them meaningful, helpful and thought-provoking. They were inspired by when the artist Luke Jerram’s travelling artworks ‘Museum of the Moon’ and ‘Helios’ were installed for a while in Winchester Cathedral. My aunt, Viv Ferris, who volunteers as a guide at the cathedral, sent me a photo of ‘Museum of the Moon’, which was the instigation of my inspiration for these poems. I hope that you enjoy them, and in this world of short-form content and short attention spans, I hope that you can find a few minutes to listen to them. I will share the video of the poems on most social media, so you can share or repost the video on whatever social media platform that you are on.
Thank you so much for your continued support and I am so grateful for all the donations. It doesn’t go without notice that there are many people who regularly donate; thank you so much for your generosity. You keep hope alive.