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Quieting the mind

Quieting the mind

This week’s photos are from a few days ago. It was a lovely morning and I went for a short walk looking for clouds along the river. You can get prints of the photos in this weeks newsletter on my print store or you can tip me on Ko-Fiso

Shame! Shame! Shame! I need to let it all go and free my mind.

Shame! Shame! Shame! I need to let it all go and free my mind.

Hello friend. How are things? I am… well this week broke me. I spent Sunday being crushed by the idea that my little cat could need eye surgery. She has done nothing to deserve the suffering she’s currently enduring. It was crushing me because the day before someone who

What a year of open water swimming did for my mental health

What a year of open water swimming did for my mental health

How are you? Another long year since last week. Treat yo self. It’s a day ending in y. What a year of open water swimming did for my mental health This week is the anniversary of my cold water swim adventures. I documented my thoughts before and after on

Christmasticle - It's a Christmas Listicle

Christmasticle - It's a Christmas Listicle

Since my dad died 4 years ago I’ve accidentally become a fan of Nordic Christmas. In Iceland in 2017 we drank Tuborg Julebryg for New Year and watched the fireworks outside the Hallgrímskirkja church in Reykjavík. I love their liquorice infused chocolate. I treat myself to a bar of

Ho. Ho. Ho.

Ho. Ho. Ho.

Hello there. How are you? Please be ok and remember that it’s ok if you’re not ok. I am… mulls not ok. One of the things I like about writing is using it to process my thoughts. It helps to write about something instead of over-thinking and worrying.

Avoiding triggers with Twitter mute filters

hello computer Merry December and a happy next Thursday? How are you? I’m trying to be ok. I just wrote 1,000 words. Deleted them and made a coffee. Why? I was getting more and more upset with each sentence. I couldn’t pin point why exactly and that

Christmas. It's complex.

hello computer Christmas. What is Christmas? Webster’s dictionary defines it as; a Christian feast on December 25 or among some Eastern Orthodox Christians on January 7 that commemorates the birth of Christ and is usually observed as a legal holiday I was raised Catholic but I found religion to