A blog inspired by Elizabeth Bishop's famous words 'the art of losing isn't hard to master'. Exploring loss, how to lose and what we should lose.
He was five-foot and six-inches. He was strong, both mind and body. He was so many things I can’t remember, and neither could he. I saw my grandfather lose his life to dementia. It was not beautiful. It was not kind on my mother. He lost places, names, and who it was he was meant to be…
When I began writing this piece, well over three months ago, I spoke to my mother about the theme. I told…
Everything happens for a reason.
Right?
I’m not so sure.
Take a minute to think of the worst moment in your life. Can you remember what people may have said to you? What you told yourself? It might have…
Ten months ago I met a man who changed my life, Harry. I wish it was Harry Styles, but it was Harry the 70-year-old man who had Parkinson’s, or so I suspected. Harry taught me the Happiness Hedge, he taught me to bet against myself.
Are you wearing a shirt right now?Do you drink water?Did you know that your shirt used 900 days of your drinking water when manufactured?No? Me either until recently. One cotton T-shirt uses 2,700 litres of water during production, which is 900 days worth of water for…