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My recent free-spree from social media had been going really well right up until yesterday when I tried to pat myself on the back for dealing with my Twitter addiction then realised I couldn’t because my hands were gripping my phone, facilitating my new addiction to YouTube. In my defence, can I bring your attention…
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52and40/40 No Brief Candle
Burning out and burning bright, my family’s in a Change Rocket, hurtling through spacetime, much outside too blurred to see. I’ve known for years that when the kids started talking futures I’d have to already be in my next chapter, lest I helicopter-parent or self-destruct. I’ve also seen as the kids mature they need, more than…
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If you like my soapbox moments or share my passions, grab a coffee or a gin and get comfy as you’ve happened upon my read me here update and it’d be great to have your comments along the way. Firstly, I’ve written as a guest blogger on The History Girls Frae Scotland recently. I…
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52and40/29 Realignment
I’ve been waking for weeks feeling badly misaligned. We had builders in, next door have builders in, two houses adjacent had builders in. With all the banging, shouting and stress there’s been little chance for creativity; each time I transported to inner space interruptions brought me clattering back. In parallel, feeling predated a notch too…
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52and40/27 Altered Images
I’ve been working on a new project called The Grantidote. Last week it took me west, to where I come from. The Grantidote’s centering women, pausing to understand how a woman’s wholeness is made up of fragments big and small, some chosen, others delivered by circumstance. The Grantidote’s about acknowledging the marks women leave on…
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52and40/18 National Treasure
A treasure trail of research lead me to Jessie Kesson and now I can’t believe her name wasn’t always part of my frame of Scots reference. Jessie was born in 1916 Inverness to a loving single mum who worked as a prostitute and knew challenge intimately. At eight, Jessie was relocated to a children’s home in Aberdeenshire and denied further…
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52and40/17 Woman Down
I’ve wondered who this guy is a lot. Turns out he’s Everyman. He’s Joe Public, apparently, the work of German artist Stephan Balkenhol. And yet…. There are more women than men in Edinburgh (and Scotland). How about a sculpture of the city’s Everywoman, instead? Or perhaps alongside? According to population data, she’d be between 16 and 29, living…
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52and40/15 Embers
The zombies are calling me. People who refer to other people as ‘they’. ‘They’re all the same’, and, ‘that’s what they want you to think’. People who’ve given up on hope and change and hunkered down, rolling a boulder called fear into the cave doorway and frowning about how they’ll get the smoke from the fire to vent…
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Of Mice and Men
Internalised misogyny’s kinda like the rat who lived in our back garden. Every now and then it poked its head out of a small hole in the dry stane dyke and scared the living shit out of me (but thrilled the dog). For soooooooo long I believed the rat was simply a large mouse. Then, faced with…
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52and40/8 Spirit Level
I’ve known folk who did everything for change and, at the end of short and happy lives, died. When change moves at a glacial pace it’s hard to know what the point is. I think the point is to make your life a laughing one full of hopeful risks and challenged potential anyway, even if the…
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