2025
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Merry Christmas
Whether you celebrate, or not. Are with family, or not. To those who have difficult relationships with your family, those who are struggling, give yourself permission just to survive this week. Be kind to yourself. It’s just another day after all. Or not. I hope this festive day finds you well, or well enough.
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A day that changed my world
I woke that Saturday morning before my alarm, had I set one, would’ve rang. I lay in bed for a moment. I can still remember that feeling of the bed being perfectly warm, not too hot, not too cold, and no matter which way I moved I was instantly comfortable. I fought the easy desire…
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A year in the past
The dusty, decrepit past slides out of view as a brighter, fresher, more inviting future beckons you over the horizon. So is the story the New Year likes to tell, a narrative that talks of new beginnings, better versions of yourself, I know, it’s just the earth moving around the sun, but that doesn’t stop…
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Digital Curation
I’ve done it again. Made plans with myself to do two things, both of which have been bubbling along in my head for a few months now, both of which will take a fair amount of prep work, but it feels like the right time to do them. Not in an ‘ohh it’s almost the…
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Legacy
What am I leaving behind? Looking back over the past year, the most tiring part, physically and emotionally, was clearing out my Mum’s flat. Whilst Mum and Dad had done a LOT of clearing out before they downsized, it doesn’t take long to build up more stuff, more detritus. Even after my Dad passed and…
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Saying goodbye to Alan
I wrote this a few months ago, I had planned on posting it but never did. I think, if I’m being honest, I was just done with funerals and death and dark questions around WHY certain people died. Alan’s funeral was on 30th June this year. But I realise now that I should still share…