Drawing I started a tree drawing (and painting) class. And for anyone who knows me pretty well, that’s like a made for me course. So, I’ve been sketching a lot. Yay! Writing Attended an incredible panel: Rethinking ‘Diversity’: the future of the publishing pipeline and meeting the needs of writers of colour. I learned a […]
Posts from June 2020
The week that started 15th June 2020
Retreat Went on an online retreat this week, that replaced the Dharma, Body and Connection to Earth retreat at Gaia House that was cancelled due to the lockdown. Our theme was Decolonizing the mind and cultivating the causes of happiness, led by Anushka Fernandopulle and Bonnie Duran, with guest contribution from Elvina Charley. I’m so […]
The week that started 8th June 2020
Rest, me too Last week I told folks to rest, and this week I’m like, oh, wait, and me as well. Struggling to rest and sleep A LOT lately. It’s infuriating, and distressing, and exhausting. To Ultimate Liberation & Freedom meditation Social justice I attended The Ethical Case for Basic Income in a Pandemic with […]
The week that started 1st June 2020
Hey fellow black folks, I love you. 💕💞💕 A call to rest. A call to action. Universal income. Social distancing. Trees. Rest. Please remember to rest. Listened to a talk by Lama Rod Owens from the retreat I was on last year. Really needed that. Been meaning to do that for a long time. Exactly […]
The week that started 25th May 2020
Writing ALL the things I got really behind with my weeknotes… Whoops! I’ve been writing other things instead: speculative short story about a world that values busyness over everything else, and the radicals resisting that; I find sci-fi so hard to write, not happy with this one (yet) but really glad I did it short […]
The week that started 18th May 2020
Priorities and planning I did a lot of prioritisation of relationships and projects this week, which was helpful for getting clearer on where to put my attention, energy and time. And then worked on my budget to make sure it was inline with my priorities. Felt a huge sense of achievement after this work, and […]
The week that started 11th May 2020
On death in Mary Oliver’s poetry I love how Mary writes of death in White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field. There’s a whole section of owl poems in the collection of her selected poems that I’m reading. Which makes me wonder about owls as harbingers of death or representations of death for […]
The week that started 4th May 2020
tl;dr: Savouring for happiness, poetry (especially Mary Oliver’s), black speculative fiction and sci-fi, flowers upon flowers, drawing & learning the names of trees in German, being inspired and encouraged to draw by my workmates, tree geekery, short stories (esp. Tove Jansson’s), psychology of happiness (specifically The Science of Wellbeing, it’s amazing, do the free course) […]
The week that started 27th April 2020
Cheap stationery So, The Science of Wellbeing reminding me that stuff is inherently disappointing, despite what our biased intuitions tell us, helped me kick my expensive stationery cravings. So, I switched from Ryman’s and Paperchase to The Works. As a result, I learned about this innovation – paper you can write on underwater, and it […]