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Funk
Why does it get harder to write as this goes on? I have so much I want to say and quite a lot of things I can’t say as the future works itself out. Many of the things I want to say when I start to write aren’t positive. I have been swept up in…
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Welcome to my blog
Hello Folks, My name’s Angela. If you’ve found your way here I am guessing you are either a) a relative b) a friend c) also dealing with your own diagnosis. Either way hello/welcome/I’m sorry. It’s a shock. I’m a 51 year old mother of three kids, a wife, a sister, a daughter. Professionally I’m a…
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Resonance
Hello. I’m sorry I haven’t written for a while. How are you? I’ve missed you! To be honest, I’ve been avoiding you. Is that a little too honest? Haha if only we could say these things in everyday life. I have been avoiding myself the most perhaps. I have become a master or mistress of…
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The Unravelling
““I will cut adrift— I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will see the Southern hills; I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage & let it swim—this fine October”. Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf wrote this in her diary on October 15th 1930. The Vice Chancellor of my university…
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The Autumn Leaves
And so the glory of the endless summer has faded and the nights are finally drawing in. In London there is that heavy earthy smell of leaves beginning to fall and gather in damp heaps. I love the smell of the Autumn here and the canal by my studio seems to echo the heavy scent…
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Healing
What does it mean to heal? I‘ve been pondering this question on holiday as I begin to come back to my body. To relax and let it find its level. It’s new normal. I’ve been writing this post for two weeks on and off. Lost for words. Or just a bit… lost. I have been…
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Breathe 