life and art
The new year is approaching, which means we are drawing closer to resolution time! I’m a confirmed skeptic of new year’s resolutions. (If something is important, why wait? And if I can’t actually manage a goal in the course of my day to day life, why set myself up for failure and then punish myself …
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Things have been a little quiet on this blog. But that’s not because the writing hasn’t been happening. Time feels strange these days – whether a hangover of the pandemic or the strangely elastic nature of living with chronic illness, I’m not sure. I think it was overyear ago that I took my first step …
It’s been floating around for years, but at the moment it feels like it’s ‘EVERYWHERE’. ‘Put on your own oxygen mask first.’ It’s a great metaphor – it’s visual, and anyone who’s ridden on an airplane will have heard it. People say this particularly to encourage people who struggle making space for self-care to take …
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Every year as I honour Thanksgiving, I’m mindful of the complicated history that accompanies it – and in particular the legacy of pain for indigenous folks in America. I find myself sitting square in the middle of this contradiction. I want to hold space for this holiday’s tangled past – and it seems to me, …
It would be an understatement to say that my cancer treatment the first time around was not a whole lot of fun. I was so traumatised, both from the birth and the cancer experience, that I felt like I was living in a state of continuous PTSD for much of my treatment. The level of …
It’s a funny moment isn’t it, where the blinders go on and the walls go up – where we stop thinking and go into blind action like strange little robots. For me, it feels like my settings have been switched, instead of operating calmly and reflectively, I just blindly charge ahead with whatever it feels …
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Growing up, I had no idea there was more than one kind of soy sauce. It simply wasn’t part of my world. As an adult, I started to notice the ‘dark’ and ‘light’ soy sauce designations. I never knew which one to pick, so I would just grab one and work with that. (And I …
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Yesterday, I cooked a double batch of pasta sauce and took it to a local friend who has just welcomed a baby. It was such a joy to help out in this tangible sort of way – and it was interesting getting to be on the giving side, since for the past few years I …
Do you remember the first time you said ‘I love you’ to someone, and you were scared they wouldn’t say it back? Or maybe this hasn’t happened to you. Some people never want to be the person to say it first. Personally, I’ve always felt like we need as much love as possible in this …
