Tag: gratitude
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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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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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In closing 2023: a love letter.
To those I love from afar, old friends and new; to my past self and to my future… I will leave this year with the softness you instilled, wrapped in a lasting richness of comfort and warmth. This is a decadence I could never have afforded without you. You gifted dignity in acceptance of my…