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The Bravery of the Wet-Winged Butterfly
I think my true self is a 4 year old girl who believes she is a butterfly. This was my response to Rachael Maddox‘s question on Roots of She: Who do you become when you let your true self out? And my answer surprised me. You see, I don’t think I’ve been that self for a long time. I think I’d half-forgotten she existed. When I was very little, I went to nursery school. The school was divided into 3 classrooms, although I can only remember the squirrel class and the butterfly class. My teacher told my mum that it had been decided to put me in the butterfly room,…
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The Time-Traveler’s Wife Read-Along Update
This is just a quick video to fill you in on where we’re at with The Time-Traveler’s Wife Read-Along. If you want to join in, check out this post, and leave me a wee comment! You may also want to subscribe to my newsletter to make sure that you don’t miss out on further info 🙂
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Journeying with the Time-Traveler’s Wife
I am having a hard time, in my tiny bedroom studio, in the beginning of my married life. The space that I can call mine, that isn’t full of Henry, is so small that my ideas have become small. I am like a caterpillar in a cocoon of paper; all around me are sketches for sculptures, small drawings that seem like moths fluttering against the windows, beating their wings to escape from this tiny space. I make maquettes, tiny sculptures that are rehearsals for huge sculptures. Every day the ideas come more reluctantly, as though they know I will starve them and stunt their growth. At night I dream about…
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Introducing My Soft Animal (…to Myself)
So the conversation went a little something like this… Me: I’m so tempted to move in with my mum for a week over the summer. Lovely Friend Lea (LFL): Do that then! Me: I always feel good after I’ve stayed there for a few days. LFL: A little r&r with your mum would be a great way to treat yourself a little. Me: Yeah – she offered before, and I was thinking no, cos I felt like a wimp – I felt like it would be running away from being independent and standing on my own two feet. LFL: And it’d be the “easy route”, right? Lea knows me so…
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A Summer of Self
I know, it’s an opportunity that most of us fantasize about, right? What would it be like to not to have all our time and space and energy and attention taken up by our jobs, our children, and our partners? Just imagine what we could achieve! A regular yoga practice. A slow delicious morning routine. A sparkling social life. A clean bathroom… the list goes on and on. And then we feel the stirring of the slow-burning embers of a guilty conscious. After all, we’re good at our job, and, let’s face it, in this economic climate we’re lucky to have a job at all. We love our children and…
