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I write about life, work, people and place. Expect oversharing. Here are some of my most popular essays from my newsletter, The Primordial Scoop.
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Remember You Are Dust
Lent began this week, marking the 40-day journey to Easter.
It’s an important and sombre time for the devout, mirroring Jesus’s wandering in the desert; hungry, alone, paranoid, scared and in emotional turmoil, which is also how about two thirds of the world feels, all the time.
This year, for thousands of people in Ukraine Lent will not be a symbolic experience, but a very literal wilderness.
New Rules for Resil(ly)ience in 2022
The fragility of the pandemic is still here in our bodies and our hearts. We’re carrying that pain into 2022. But that can work for us, too.
What if my loss of resilience is actually a demand to focus my life’s energy on what matters?
This year, I’ve simply let go of any delusions about my time, energy and money, and how I will manage all three.
I’ve done less in a traditional sense, but I feel like I’ve lived a little more.
The Mask of Authenticity
“Hiding your feelings can be freeing. But eventually you have to take off the mask.”
Allow me to introduce Cristina Maria, a London-based writer, Solzhenitsyn devotee, Bauhaus fanatic, Plato-quoting pedant, with an exclusive essay, just for us anxious wrecks.
Meet Me in the Waves
Today, the nights are longer and the days are cooler. It’s so rare one can pinpoint the turning of time but that day, I could.
Between the sand and the sea, we crossed from infancy to boyhood.
Take It to the Sea
Sometimes we are the current, pushing and pulling and directing the flow of our lives.
Other times, the sands move from under our feet and we’re forced to move too. This year, I’ve experienced both.
Death to Perfectionism
When did perfectionism become so desirable?
‘Perfectionist’ has become a byword for a competitive, work hard, type A, productivity-obsessed personality trope.
For some, it seems to have replaced a personality altogether.
She Cried for Five Years
After a two-week hiatus I’m back, writing to you from the other side.
We moved. House, city. Life.
We had no internet, intermittent childcare and the emotional heaviness affected everyone - and I’m including the cat in that statement.
Unbraiding Sweetgrass
“Hold out your hands and let me lay upon them a sheaf of freshly picked sweetgrass, loose and flowing, like newly washed hair...Breathe it in and you start to remember things you didn’t know you’d forgotten.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer, ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’
Stop Waiting. Start Being.
Waiting to take action is actually one of my crummiest qualities, along with self-righteousness, inconsistency and all those failed attempts to stop drinking in the week.
Waiting for Friday night. Waiting to lose weight so I can buy jeans again. Waiting for the children to grow. Everything is just waiting.
Do You Love Your Work? Part Two! ❤️
Take a space walk between your deeply-held attitudes towards employment and the outer galaxy of important work that does more than build value for shareholders.
You don’t have to be in an ashram to start imbibing your very important human existence with meaning, in big ways and small.