Invent a holiday! Explain how and why everyone should celebrate. Imagine if there was such a public holiday as ‘Get to know your inner child’. What an interesting public holiday this would be! It would be confronting, painful and eye-opening for many people. It’s common to bury one’s feelings along with pain accumulated during childhoodContinue reading “International ‘Get to know Your Inner Child Day’”
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Album of the Year: Cartoon Darkness by Amyl and the Sniffers
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Genre: Punk, Thrash Metal Label: Rough Trade Review in one word: Exhilarating I don’t often review music, yet as I clean my house, go on walks, work, have friends around, hang out with my partner or read books…well I’m constantly listening to something! So here it goes – my favourite album of 2024 dropped only aContinue reading “Album of the Year: Cartoon Darkness by Amyl and the Sniffers”
Chefchaoen at Dusk
When I was in Chefchaoen, Morocco in 2009 and looking out from the rooftop of the hostel I was overtaken by a feeling of awe and amazement at the sheer size and scale of the world. #travel #storytelling #writing #spirituality #love #connection #morocco
Endless money, endless time and endless health
You have three magic genie wishes, what are you asking for? Endless money: they say money corrupts people, it’s certainly possible that having endless money would make me a different person. I would likely become too lazy with endless money, however I would like to think that I’d use the endless money to resolve theContinue reading “Endless money, endless time and endless health”
10 #InterestingThings I Found on the Internet 138
The #science of optimism, hexahedral imaginary #architecture, the most popular dreams across every country mapped, how to make good small talk, golden roman bracelets and more. It’s edition 138 of #InterestingThings
Every Picture Tells A Story: Strong Dogs on Antarctic Expedition (1911)
Photographer Frank Hurley snaps his whimsical and wise looking Greenland esquimaux #dogs named Basilisk and Ginger during an #Antarctic expedition between 1911-1914. Image discovered via the State Library of New South Wales. #snow #adventure #old #photo
Comforting Thought: And the people stayed home by Kitty O’Meara
“And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still.” #alone #quote #healing #love #connection
Comforting Thought: Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere – they’re in each other all along
The moment I heard my first love storyI started looking for you, not knowinghow blind that was.Lovers don’t finally meet somewhereThey’re in each other all along.-Rumi
Book Review: Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen
A brutal, vulnerable, intensely personal and yet universal story of a little girl growing up between the world wars in Denmark. Almost a century after it was written, Ditlevsen’s story of her childhood in a poor suburb of Copenhagen is still fresh, timeless and revealing. Her childhood self is a compelling blend of raw honesty, naive tenderness and fragile curiosity.
Comforting Thought: Sometimes I’m the wind
“sometimes, i consider myselfto be the windsometimes, i consider myselfto be the anchorsometimes, i know that without a doubt,i am the oceanbut only the open sky can seewhat i really am” good grief, brianna pastor “you need both the light and the dark. one does not exist without the other. to sweep your darkness underContinue reading “Comforting Thought: Sometimes I’m the wind”
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