Softly Loudly
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Softly Loudly
Hello! Thanks for popping by. Softly Loudly is an album I recorded in 2020, releasing weekly between 1st Jan – 19th Feb 2021. At the time, I wrote a little about each song – grab your headphones too, as you can listen while you read! The album in its entirety, and everything I’ve recorded previously…
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Self-Love and Ladybird Books
If you happen to be spending the 14th of February in South Korea, you might be inclined to give a man the gift of chocolate. And if you are Finnish, you won’t be doing Valentine’s Day but Ystävänpäivä – ‘friends day’! We grow-up with so many customs surrounding love and I started thinking about the…
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Over to you!
I decided maybe it wasn’t my turn and I needed the creative energy of others. This week I’ve received the generous gift of freshly penned poetry from two opposite sides of the globe. And bang! The intersection of this serendipitous pairing (geographically somewhere around China) is magically, right here for you to enjoy.
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Disclaimer: this is my disclaimer
Music is something I seem to ‘lean in’ to the discomfort of, although it still scares the bejeepers out of me. Most of us have something we want to be braver at and learning about other people’s true colours (even beige) is always a joy to me. Although it’s not always easy to jump in…
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Marie Kondo – A Single Thread
Some songs decide to grow outwards in all directions. The new track ‘Marie Kondo’ sprouted lots of little stories. The kind that connect you in a hidden way to the people you can’t be with: a cohort which recently includes pretty much everyone we know. View post to subscribe to site newsletter.
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Or…We Could Just Stay Here
How lucky we are to have such an infinite array of choices, even at the moment when we see our lives as unusually restricted. Far too many have lost loved ones this year, and though it’s at immeasurable cost, this surely deepens our experience of what it is to be alive. View post to subscribe…
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Can we live in this new way?
We’ve never been so physically disconnected from the rest of the world, and politically from our European neighbours. On both counts I hope the separation is followed by a renewed passion and willingness to connect. If we trust the philosophy of Belgian psychologist Esther Perel: “Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need…
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Save to the Soul Reserve
Somewhere along the meandering course of 2020, I became a little fixated by running water, streams, rivers and the general flow of things. View post to subscribe to site newsletter.
Emma Nabarro-Steel 