Tag: truth
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52and40/20 Pigs Might Fly
We took ourselves to Raasay in February. A proper road trip – a long time in the car, sweets, music, stops for the dog to wee, chats about memories. Maniacs in white vans, eye-spy and the name game. Does it all sound perfect? It wasn’t. We fought, too. There were hideous tensions as well as…
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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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52and40/11 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…
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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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Truths in a Cupboard
My name is Heather and I’m a fixer. Pretty much any broken thing will do but I particularly like to fix people. I can get caught up for years in fixing someone before realising, fuck, I’m at it again; I’m down the rabbit hole of fixing someone because it’s part of my cycle of learned…