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5. Forward
It’s okay to be scared. If your lips are trembling, and your face is flush with tears, it’s okay. If the only strength you can muster is to bring your knees to your chest, rest your chin upon them and let your knees be your pillow. They cannot smother you. Sometimes, I am so scared…
Use Your Voice
The world is rioting right now. Fires are burning, in the streets, in countries across the world, within people who have been discriminated against for centuries. We all have a responsibility. To ourselves, to our neighbours, to our families and to our futures, to fight for what is just and important to us. How we…
4. Breathe
I have never felt small. Try as I might sometimes, I seem incapable of reducing myself into manageable chunks for an audience. It can be inconvenient to say the least. I’ll almost definitely have the most energy in a room, the widest smile, the loudest laugh. You won’t see me shying away from attention that’s…
You are never alone.
I will always remember the day my dad first deployed out to the Middle East. Bleary eyed and half asleep, me and my brother being ushered into the back of the car by our mother. I could never tell whether the morning dew had settled early or if she was crying. We would drive to…
Take two.
So to the few who have already read my first blog post from a couple of weeks ago, many thanks and welcome back – I hope this installment is as thrilling as the first. It has taken me some time to decide what my second reflection should be on. However I think I have decided…
Firsts before lasts.
I have spent a lot of today thinking about moments. Life is full of them, intricately sewn together. Jagged jigsaw pieces with some fitting better than others, some small, some large and some which have tried to be scratched out so many times that their fragile seams ache with the hope of being dropped and…
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