My therapist told me yrs ago to think of my emotions like a river and my mind as a passerby sitting on the bank. As I sit and watch the water it may swell up and become violent, and sometimes it will empty out and become just a flat expanse of sand. My job was to watch […]

One day we found a park on the harbour that was perfectly flat and covered in yellow grass. Everything was quiet, all noise soaked away by the wind and body of water, and so light. Illuminated in sunshine. We lay there for a while drinking coffee and watching fluffy dogs walk past.

I miss the cold and quiet snow and hot baths when we visited the snow monkeys

I hope every1 my age is ready to enter their 3rd phase of external social rearrangement and internal growth! Look out for new friends also old friends who are dragging on u, also big changes in group dynamics, social structures and power dynamics ‘(^  O ^)’ this year will see lots of change now that final […]

Heat-ruined film stained purple and pale the colours of this summer

I finally got my whale tattoo done ! Based on the last stanza of  “I Cover my Eyes” part III of a series of poems I wrote about illness and shared +ongoing female identities; “I know one day, I will find you again. And we will swim through star-bright water. Two whales under a night sky.” I didn’t feel […]