Tag: experiences
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You cannot recreate the viscerality of life from within a chamber.
It’s 2018… I think. I’m sat on the hospital bed waiting for the mental health team following blood results. I was finally allowed to eat again. My pal who had trekked across the borough came armed with a giant bag of pickled onion space raiders. We begin the spreadsheet “reasons to stay alive”. ‘Try new…
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Seven safe places to hide.
This post has been inspired by a band I’m hooked on at the minute. Austin TX based Urban Heat have been lulling my lugholes on my commute every day. About a month ago, frontman, Jonathan Horstmann, spoke of the way songs transform and reveal additional meaning (watch the Instagram reel here). He was specifically referring…
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As I dance through bluebells.
It’s 3pm on Wednesday. I’m sat in a long, drawn out meeting. My reflection stares back as I try to concentrate on the agenda items. The frown lines in my face prominent and the bags under my eyes weighing heavy onto my cheek bones. Sadness expelled in the weight of heavy sighs. It was only…
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New directions.
I spent last weekend listening to education podcasts. Thinkers with interesting, important things to say. The best guests were those whose words were married into stories of their own eclectic experiences. Off the back of this, I started to read the articles and thinkpieces they’d penned. Carefully curated ideas that spark curiosity, afterthoughts, reflection. I…