This one hit me hard at some point last year, right in the middle of trying to heal from burnout, trying to slow my life down so it doesn’t always feel like a breathless, frantic, slightly panicked rush. Therapy is great. Journalling (to my eternal irritation) works amazingly. Learning growth mindsets and cognitive behavioural therapy […]
It’s a reposty kind of week because Time is a Thing which is apparently Limited (and I am not okay with this). Content warning: Robin Williams’ suicide; the Ferguson riots; animal captivity; the Stolen Generation; school-based trauma. Yep, it’s a light one. (I’ll Never Have Big Enough Arms To Hold) These Disparate Things Robin Williams
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A Patreon Poem: Weltschmerz Read More »
A group of divers were out, well, diving, and stumbled (metaphorically, because stumbling while swimming is hard?) across a tiny lil octopus. Said octopussum had had a tiny lapse in judgement, and was attempting to use a plastic cup as a shell. The divers felt sorry for it, and spent a significant part of their
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So, I’ve been exploring Malinda’s two YouTube channels after finding those fab videos from last week and the week before, and a few days ago, I came across this: Malinda challenged herself to not look at herself/use a mirror for 5 days. The results are… Look, you just really need to watch the video, okay?
“In Summation, Please Take Care Of Yourselves”. Read More »
Behold, readers, a perfect combination of some of my favourite things in the world: Talented people Doing talented things Together, as a team While having a blast… …Oh, and it’s the song This Is Me from The Greatest Showman, which helps a lot :’D ENJOY. What are your favourite talented-people-doing-talented-things-with-gleeful-abandon moments? Do share! :3 <3
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Yesterday, @Nicole_Cliffe, whom I do not know except for this brief encounter, started a thread on twitter, asking for times when strangers have been kind to us. Please. Take time to read the thread. You will not be sorry. This article, linked to in the thread, is also very much worth your while: a story
Humanity Is AWful; Humanity Is Kind. (I Dare You Not To Cry.) Read More »
Found this on a stumble through the archives, and it felt timely to repost. Go on. Be rebellious. You know you want to 😉 Modern Western consumer culture particularly sets us up to be in competition with each other – as men, as women, as non-binaries, as teens, as adults, in the workplace, in comparing
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This was circulating on Twitter last week, and look, we all know it doesn’t take much for me to tear up (whether through joy or sorrow) anyway, AND the songs from the musical Wicked are pretty much guaranteed to trigger the waterworks, so it’s not really a stretch to imagine how I felt watching this
Because I Knew You, I Have Been Changed For Good Read More »
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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