Things make a post
Apr. 12th, 2014 11:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberett1. Sunshine, sunshine, sunshine.
2. Walking along the south bank of the Thames, in the sunshine, withsebastienne; talking about relationships and Art and leaning arms on railings looking at the Thames; browsing books; eating dinner from the food market that happens outside.
3. The Southbank Centre itself, which contains music and Captain Awkward meets and a poetry library and ridiculous art and space in which people are permitted to just be - to take up space, to exist, to be noisy and delightful and communal and -- oh, oh, but it is good for my heart.
4. Poetry. (life is too short to live without poetry/if you've got soul darling now come on and show it me)
5. Imbuing art with meaning, as focus, and having it returned tenfold.
6. I am loved. I am loving.
7. My tomatoes are germinating. My peppers are... thinking about it. The parsley bought as a pot entire and eaten entire is beginning to reassert itself in its own way.
8. My ridiculous perfume collection is being very, very good to me at the moment - scent upon scent, layer upon layer.
9. Pear juice. I am really massively enjoying it at the moment. Also, raspberry sorbet and rye-and-caraway-and-sunflower-seed bread.
10. The gingko trees coming into leaf all the glorious way into work and back again.
There's some stuff swirling that is trying to coalesce and mayn't get a chance to over the next little while (see previous...). Nonetheless it goes a bit like this:
2. Walking along the south bank of the Thames, in the sunshine, with
sebastienne; talking about relationships and Art and leaning arms on railings looking at the Thames; browsing books; eating dinner from the food market that happens outside. 3. The Southbank Centre itself, which contains music and Captain Awkward meets and a poetry library and ridiculous art and space in which people are permitted to just be - to take up space, to exist, to be noisy and delightful and communal and -- oh, oh, but it is good for my heart.
4. Poetry. (life is too short to live without poetry/if you've got soul darling now come on and show it me)
5. Imbuing art with meaning, as focus, and having it returned tenfold.
6. I am loved. I am loving.
7. My tomatoes are germinating. My peppers are... thinking about it. The parsley bought as a pot entire and eaten entire is beginning to reassert itself in its own way.
8. My ridiculous perfume collection is being very, very good to me at the moment - scent upon scent, layer upon layer.
9. Pear juice. I am really massively enjoying it at the moment. Also, raspberry sorbet and rye-and-caraway-and-sunflower-seed bread.
10. The gingko trees coming into leaf all the glorious way into work and back again.
There's some stuff swirling that is trying to coalesce and mayn't get a chance to over the next little while (see previous...). Nonetheless it goes a bit like this:
- trust as generative (thank you, sebastienne <3), and what this means for self-trust & also for intimate partner relationships
- having boundaries is not inherently abusive
- forgiving while remaining whole (I need to explore this for myself)
- performative empathy?
- what is it reasonable to ask for - of oneself and of others? how do things interact?
- beauty is truth
- the joyful wrung-out knife-edge of hard work, and why I'm healthier in my job than I'd be out of it
- gender and intersectionality