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Jane Eyre – nineteenth century Aspie woman
Yesterday, I was at the Blackeyed Theatre stage production of Jane Eyre and, from the front balcony seat looking down onto the stage, I saw something so new yet just so obvious about this well-known character that I had missed … Continue reading →
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Tagged asperger's friendships, asperger's traits in literature, Aspergers, autism, being different, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, late-diagnosed Asperger's, masking behaviours, nineteenth centiry asperger's women, owning your differences, pretending to be normal, role models, self-understanding through literature, was Jane Eyre autistic?, why people dislike people with Asperger's
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To walk visible…at last
Was your fierce teenage femininity woken up and crystallised by Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights”? Mine certainly was. I know I’ve thought of re-reading “Wuthering Heights” many times over the years – what stopped me, caused hesitation? Did I fear disappointment with what engaged me so as a girl like when you try to visit the most magical books of childhood and they’re just not the same, am I more squeamish of the dark than I used to be, or was it the thought of comparison…with where I am now…that I most dreaded? For, where is my inner Cathy, where are my wild moors; have I sold my life out to the Lintons, made nice and put wild plaything away? Or am I still promising them to myself “tomorrow”? Continue reading →
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Tagged Brontës, Cathy, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, freedom, Heathcliffe, holding onto who we really are, impact of a novel, Jane Eyre, novels versus television, rereading classics, sacred feminine, the pitfall of TV adaptations, To Walk Invisible, visibility, wildness, Wuthering Heights
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The long slow yawn
…Just looking at the everyday evidence, quite apart from all the enhancement in life’s minutest details, all the beauty noticed and so much clarity, its as though time has speeded up to a whole other pace compared to those earlier times of sludge. It moves along quite differently to those years when life was lived like a goldfish; neither bored nor surprised at seeing the same old fishtank sides and certainly never questioning why they were there. But then we are into the ninth wave now and everything is happening soooo much more quickly again, the evolutions coming thick and fast (oh, about every 36 days…) appearing as upgrades that make me feel like 6 months was another lifetime ago, so much does everything reinvent, again and again and again. Is this a trick; are we just designed to always think we see more, feel more, know more today than we did yesterday? Can I really tell all these changes happened, do trees really look any different to my eyes (perhaps it took the slow steady growth of the tree that hasn’t changed so very much…only my perception of it…to show this) and are my evolutionary spurts so much more than a “nice” academic theory? In my life, oh yes, yes they are but yesterday seemed to want to show me some particular things, just to make sure I grasped the leap that has been made; seeing even what those earlier contrasts were here to show me in their own perfect way. In short, I was given another opportunity to appraise just how beautfully designed my whole life has been and how much I have woken up, already. Though the two decades this transition has taken could feel like a very long, slow yawn, the most recent months have been like the part when you vigorously rub the sleep out of your eyes, your head clears and the room seems suddenly a-dazzle with colour and interest; and all the promise of a brand new day. Continue reading →
Posted in Biography, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality
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Tagged awareness, Consciousness, generation Z and the eighth wave, getting out of a rut, getting out of hopelessness, humanity waking up, leaving disfunctional relationships, personal evolution, reinventing yourself, The Nine Waves of Creation, the ninth wave, the waking-up process, transformation, transformation through childbirth, wake-up world, waking up, waking-up call, what does evolution feel like in life
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A week in Wales day one: “Pause – Rewind – Play”
A subtle change in geography for a week has gifted me an action replay of the changing season from woody Winter into vividest Springtime. It makes me realise how much we get to enjoy that moment of pure, poised potential when we stop rushing forwards all the time; to appreciate that unique moment of held-breath before exhalation, of dynamic stillness “just before” something occurs, when the possibility of it “happening” first makes itself known and yet hasn’t…yet. Like a delicious pause in the progression of our own evolution, we get to hold both the “before” and “after” in the same moment, a perfect dovetail joint of both and to know all of it as a complete picture, just as Source gets to experience it, outside of time and space. We get to sense the absolute perfection in all of it; all the variables, the possibilities, the before and afters, the stages in between. Our lives are a continuous progression of such moments of pure potential…if we but knew how to recognise them (as Nature does her best to show us)… Continue reading →
Posted in Authorship, Biography, Blogging, Consciousness & evolution, Life journey, Nature, Personal Development, Seasons, Symbolic journeys, Writing
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Tagged appreciating the moment, awareness, being alive, being present, diary, excitement, leaves opening, living in the now, nature, opening, rewinding the clock, seasons, springtime, the whole picture, tree metaphor, unfurling
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Woken up by Roy…again
“The goddess of the wishing well…the sweetest mystery I ever saw wandering the paradise that was the day before” but then “I became a god of thieves and sold the sunlight, burned the leaves, I killed for fun, shattering a paradise, living on the run. So came the storm and we were blown another age from hearth and thrown upon a whim, I threw my only chance away, tore her limb from limb”. Celebrating exactly thirty-eight years since Roy Harper (who doesn’t mince his words when he talks about the thrashing, bashing and banishing of the divine famine) woke me up (the first time) at age nine, his music becoming its own gentle summer stream coursing through the landscape of my life.
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Posted in Art, Art transformation tool, Biography, Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Divine feminine, Entertainment, Menu, Music & theatre, Music composition, Personal Development
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Tagged activations through music, album review, coming of age, England, getting back to Camelot, healing the earth, Kate Bush, lyrics that make a difference, music as a portal, music connecting memory, popular music, return of the divine feminine, Roy Harper, Rushing Camelot, sacred well, speaking out, The green Man, the power of music, Wishing Well
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When you lose something you find something
Talking about a day of two loses on a very different scale and yet all strangely synchronistic…joined together by a song lyric. And there’s nothing like the “loss” of a living artist (though their offerings live on and on) to bring their work and motivations sharply into focus as we are suddenly inundated with retrospectives of their life’s output via every cultural channel there is; its like everything they were about is suddenly distilled down into an extraordinarily potent brew that we all get to take a sip of (if we choose to). So, maybe saturation in the mentality of an artist who never feared his most obscure offerings being ridiculed or rejected is just what is called for right now in a culture where popularity is courted as a measure of artistic success; a timely reminder that our best output, most probably, lies in a dark room from which we create our own version of light in a state of oblivion as far as the opinions of others are concerned and with no sense of an audience peering in at us. Maybe true creative genius is only unleashed once we learn to please ourselves above all others… Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art as a business, Art purpose, Art transformation tool, Artists, Biography, Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Entertainment, Life choices, Lifestyle, Music & theatre, Music composition, Personal Development, Social media
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Tagged art lives on, Blackstar lyrics, breaking the phone habit, create like no one is watching you, David Bowie, death, dropping ties and attachments, following your bliss, freedom to create, gaining perspective, how artists inspire us, inspiration, keeping things in proportion, Lazarus lyrics, life without a phone, loss, mercury retrograde, motivation as an artist, popularity culture, reactions to David Bowie's death, starman, the obsession with popularity, true creative genius, what is art?, what is artistic success?, what's really important, witnessing our reactions
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New perspectives on a woman’s prime
My mother always used to say that she never felt a day over 27 and, true to form, lived bizarrely devoid of any sense of being a particular age right up until she was diagnosed with cancer of the liver … Continue reading →
Posted in Biography, Books, Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Lifestyle, Maturity, Menu, Personal Development, Writing, Yoga
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Tagged as young as you feel, being yourself, best years of your life, biology of belief, Bonkers Jennifer Saunders, Bruce Lipton, cancer fear, celebrating maturity, celebrating menopause, cuddle therapy, doing things for yourself, dressing as you like, eccentricity, empowerment in old age, epigenetics, freedom, going gray, gray hair, hugging, In your prime India Knight, laughter, marriage expectations, maturity, menopause, midlife crisis, mobility and health, natural hormones, perspectives on age, prime of life, Revolution Gray, speaking your mind, The pull of the moon Elizabeth Berg, we are what we think, wisdom
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The making of an artist
For some time now, I’ve had a half-formed post just hovering there without the words having arrived… All I had to build it on were some photos from the galleries taken on my recent visit to Nottingham Castle Museum in … Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art history, Art technique, Artists, Biography, Culture, Exhibitions, Films, Galleries, Literature
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Tagged AJ Munnings, art training, breaking out of the art establishment, DH Lawrence, evolving art practices, Harold Knight, Jonathan Smith, Lamorna, Laura Knight, Newlyn School, Nottingham Castle, Sons and Lovers, Summer in February, what makes an artist?, women artists
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Four legs (and a pair of wings)
This morning, through it was raining, I had in mind to head off on one of the long forest walks I often do but to take a different path to usual. With the new splurge of energy and good health … Continue reading →
Newness breezes in
This morning, I feel like Virginia Woolf in ‘The Hours’ (which I rewatched just the other night); with misted look in my eyes, I find I want to announce “I believe I may have a first sentence”. And this is … Continue reading →
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Tagged backlog, Blogging, freshness, immediacy, inspiration, life speeding up, reason for writing, writing
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