I didn’t die yesterday. This is of course true every day we wake up – but we don’t often think about it. But yesterday I came much closer than usual – how close, I don’t actually know, but close enough for concern and a reminder of mortality and to be grateful for being alive.
This post is a jumbled mixture of how ill I am, and reflecting on the severity and strangeness of the condition. How Ill I am I have post-acute covid syndrome (aka long covid). At the moment, I can’t walk out of the house, have a normal conversation, or sit at a table and eat a […]
Around the beginning of December, I started to reflect back on the year. I typically write about it privately, in a blog sort of style. But this time round, I felt I should write it publicly. It also took a bit longer than I had hoped, but, here we are. Structure You might want to […]
In December, after a couple of months of health improvement, I got quite suddenly much worse, ending up severely ill for 5-10 days, feeling like I was more than halfway to dead This blog is about that experience. I am writing this in early January, recovered from the worst of it, though still very limited and fragile.
Or: How training parkour has helped me manage being crippled Our entire existence is movement, in one form or another. Yet most of it is unconscious, without attention, just happening as our routine patterns. But how about if we treated the everyday as a movement practice? Recording: I recorded this post so that if you […]
Content note: talks about death, disability, chronic illness, exercise and fitness I thought I would write a blog post about my experience with Long Covid, which is still debilitating and significantly affecting my life 8 months after infection. I *think* I am still gradually and slowly improving, though it may also have reached a plateau […]
This is a recipe for some cookies which are low FODMAP, gluten free and dairy free, and hit the spot just right for me. Since developing some food intolerances (FODMAP), my food has been much more limited. With no wheat, that’s meant no cake or pastries; occasionally gluten free flour replacements can work but it’s […]
We face two choices in this life: trying or not trying. I almost wrote, trying or giving up, except that not all ‘not trying’ is giving up. Sometimes it isn’t worth the risk, sometimes we don’t have the time or energy. So instead it’s about the choices. There’s a scene in Batman Begins between Wayne […]
Without You, There Is No Us I recently read the book Without You, There Is No Us by Suki Kim, which is about her time teaching in North Korea. Kim went undercover as a teacher in the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, which is the only place in North Korea with foreign teachers. The […]
If we think of changing the world, and how big the changes which are needed are, it feels like a huge undertaking. It feels impossible: from where we are now, how could we possibly get there? I often feel this, as I think so many of us do. However: there is one thing that makes […]