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A Blossom Takeover (Voice Note 3)
Hello and happy blossom time! With an unapologetic visual takeover by some of the blossom diversity around me. After what felt like a nicely stretched-out easter of overlapping academic holidays, it’s been a while since putting the proverbial pen to paper. Along with lots of family catch-ups and a dollop of DIY, I’ve been loving…
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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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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.
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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…