Sometimes, you just really needed to hear it. My kids are 5 and 2 right now, and they are both clever little beans, and super active. My son particularly is a little perpetual motion machine, and always has been.* So for the last two years, they’ve been doing swimming lessons as yet-another-way-to-try-to-expend-their-energy-and-keep-them-sufficiently-occupied. Y’all know my […]
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Extract from a random conversation with Liana Brooks on learning to live with negative emotions – sharing because…?? I don’t know? Someone else might find it useful? My brain is a weird place and I feel you deserve full disclosure of that? Something. 😀 this is different it’s not bottling i know bottling i
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I don’t think we need a lengthy introduction here about how awful humanity can be. It’s pretty easy to look around and spot a hundred examples all within arm’s reach. Humanity can be awful. It hurts. It hurts so much there’s a term for it: Weltschmerz, which is German for ‘world pain’. World pain. That’s
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I really needed something inspiring this week. This fit the bill nicely. Enjoy some amazing music at the end of a very long week <3 Read more:Made-it Monday: Lemon Meringue CakeMadeItMonday: Star Wars Cake DesignMade It Monday: NOT CAKE. (ah ha ha jk of course its cake)
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Okay I promise I’ll give the poetry a break next week, but did I mention I am a total Fangrrl when it comes to Omar Musa’s work?? AND YOU GUYS. I GOT HIS NEW BOOK, signed and everything! So much happy!!! <3 So yes. Enjoy this one – one of his earliest poems 🙂 <3
More poetry this week 🙂 Omar Musa is one of my all-time favourite poets. Consider me a total fangirl, and I am *so* excited to be able to go the launch of his new poetry book next week *\o/* Read more:On Rhythms, And The Regaining ThereofIn Which My Sense Of Time Is Abominable And I
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Happy Easter! Here in Aus it’s a four-day long weekend, which is fabulous, so I’m enjoying the extra time with family 🙂 One of my junior classes has just started their poetry unit for the year, so I’ve been trawling through YouTube vids for all my poet-y favourites. There are some seriously amazing spoken-word poets
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I don’t know, this song feels kind of relevant this week. I’m drowning in school work and the world, and just… yeah. I feel like I’m running just to stay alive. The good news, though, is that tomorrow? SCHOOL. HOLIDAYS. I get two weeks of no work (though I have way too much I still
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Because we all need to be reminded to breathe now and again. Liana Brooks: Just Keep Breathing And this awesome Tumblr image on Periods of Growth. Go read ’em. You’ll feel a lot better about life and the world once you do. <3 A Read more:Back To The #FoxBook Playlist: Human By Gabrielle AplinHopePlease Don't
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