Tag: personal
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52and40/36 ‘Tis The Season
My mental health’s gone off kilter recently. As a health-conscious veteran of PMDD, postnatal and antenatal depressions, I know when my neurochemistry’s recalibrated in an unhelpful direction. I’m lucky SSRIs work well for me and I feel positive, mainly, about medical interventions. I like my life in full, balanced colour. So, while the palette reloads, I’m taking…
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Justification
I’m calling great big dirty bullshit on the word *just* I put it to you the word just is a bullshit signifier; that whatever words come before or after it need to come under immediate suspicion because the fact that just is in the air means the integrity of the other words have, I believe,…
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52and40/12 Venus in Tweeds
When the bloke I fancied told me he lived on a west coast island and ‘commuted’ to Aberdeen for work, I pictured Father Ted’s Manse and grimaced. ‘How can you bear it?’, I’d asked. ‘The flatness? The wind?’ He looked like I’d spoken in Spaniel. The following week I understood. Sapphire sea in a white sand…
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52and40/11 Dissolving Disasters
My friend had been wondering what to inscribe on a piece of pottery. She found her answer through Google: ‘Better to light a candle than curse the darkness’ Beautiful, isn’t it? The kids and I have talked lots recently about ideas around either being part of a problem or part of a solution. It almost sounds…