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Currently when you open the Overhear app you have either an empty library before collecting any poems or, if you've updated recently, you'll see a welcome message. We've decided it would be a great to have a poem entitled "You are here" as an initial poem for you to listen to when you first download the app to just make you appreciate that, yes, you are here, where ever 'here' is. So we will be working on a brand new piece of poetry celebrating your hereness. One further idea that would require a bit more updating is: if that You are Here poem showed up on a map in the app at the point at which you first downloaded it to remind you of the start of your Overhear journey and where exactly you were when you downloaded the app...

We'd love folks to upload their poems via www.theoverhear.app/upload and contribute to our public map. This would form an amazing time capsule capturing creative output from this time period.

These are great for dealing with anxiety as they fix us firmly in a location. So its no surprise then that they can also help us be mindful of the location we might want to write about. At Overhear we've found that being in a place or space with the intention to write about it and feeling calm in a space in general have a large amount of cross over. The more we engage in both the better it is for our writing and for our mental health. If you want to literally ground yourself you could engage in the art of "Free Seeing" coined by Francis Lowe: facebook.com/freeseeing . These are events where attendees bring role mats, lie on the floor and look at things from the ground up!