“We are adrift on the open seas. Artists, like everyone else, must take up their oars, without dying, if possible—that is to say, by continuing to live and create.” Create Dangerously: The Power and Responsibility of the Artist, Albert Camus
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A message from my friend Mo in Gaza
Mo and his family have helped homeless and hungry cats in Gaza for many many years and have found many animal lover friends all over the world. This care for the cats didn’t stop during the invasion and genocide by Israel. Miraculously he and his family hold on and are still alive, but I saw this message from him from Twitter and I had to share it with you all. On Twitter: @helpcatsmsallam
The city of the future
How would you design the city of the future? My city of the future would be designed to facilitate ongoing and sensible growth within the planet’s ecological boundaries. It would use recycled water and make use of solar and wind energy instead of fossil fuels. People’s innovation using AI and biotechnology would mean we manufactureContinue reading “The city of the future”
The messiness of being a woman
I’ve just emerged from a seven day storm of crying at the drop of a hat, hating everything about being alive and blubbing incoherently while holding various plushies brought home from the four corners of the earth, each imbued with a lot of temporal and historical meaning for myself and the Polish Bear. It’s aContinue reading “The messiness of being a woman”
10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #151
Simple rules for living a great #life, St Giles Cathedral #Edinburgh at sunset, classic Siouxie and the Banshees, sea cucumber skin under the microscope, Yasui Sotaro’s #art and loads more #InterestingThings #ContentCatnip My name is Angèle I’m a ranger at Virunga National Park “My name is Angèle, and I have been a ranger in VirungaContinue reading “10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #151”
Underrated every day uses for chat GPT’s paid plan
8. Caring for plants: If you have no idea about plants and how to manage them, asking Chat GPT will really help. 9. Complex geopolitical situations: A lot of the shit going on around the world can be ignored but it’s still hanging around in your brain like a bad smell. If you don’t haveContinue reading “Underrated every day uses for chat GPT’s paid plan”
Failures can be a great thing in the long-term
How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? I can recall many times in my life when I’ve failed and I’m not afraid to share them with you. It taught me a lot about what I wanted the direction of my life to go in. When I was a teenagerContinue reading “Failures can be a great thing in the long-term”
Living in an exciting European city
What will your life be like in three years? In three years I hope to be living in Europe with my beloved Polish Bear 🐻 I hope to be undertaking further study and working and that I have purchased a house along with PB. We are both happy and healthy and cycling around the placeContinue reading “Living in an exciting European city”
International ‘Get to know Your Inner Child Day’
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’”
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.
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