Musings into the double entendre of a quiet kind - the power of both a quiet kind of person, their need to regenerate in stillness, and the acts of quiet kindness or quiet craft - oft hidden but truly potent.

Inspired by a story of actress Jessica Chastain being gifted a scholarship from Robin Williams while at The Juilliard School - revealed by her after his death. The lift from anxiety and working every hour that his gift afforded her and yet it was done quietly, without fame or fuss. Similar anecdote about a secret gift made by George Michael after hearing a lady’s plight on UK radio.

Also speaking into the type of personality that requires isolation or quiet for basic regeneration or nervous system alignment. That we not diminish those we don’t understand for their propensity to seek quiet in a world where busy is a flex and extroversion a more valued asset than it’s opposite.  

Inspiration gleaned from the book, Quiet by Susan Cain and her assertion of the value and need for the Quiet kind as well as the importance of recognising this as a superpower of sorts, worthy of praise in our children and the ones we love. 

From corporate lawyer to full time writer, Julia Mathison, in this 12 MIN EP, explores how both acts of quiet kindness, as well as those who resonate as a quieter kind, have a value that may seem hidden or given less street cred but can have consequences that radiate profoundly and offerings that stem from a deep well. 

Always a personal musing, featuring personal preferences, with a desired message to be kind, follow your hearts direction and accept the calling of your innate gifts. 

Notes: 

BOOK - QUIET - SUSAN CAIN 

RIP to two greats - Robin Williams and Philip Seymour Hoffman, also one time students of The Juilliard School. 

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Musings into a particular instance of relationship lost - the disenfranchisement of losing someone whose relationship to you was not visible or known in the circle of grief. 

A highly personal dive into a type of loss distinguished by the silence in which someone must grieve when the loss is of a particular vein. 

Stories shared of an unknown lover at a funeral and the daughter left for another family - the disorientation and disconnection this grief yields and the inability to contain it for lack of being able to truly feel heir apparent to it… the shame and confusion this grief can wrangle and the realisation every road in grief is essentially one we walk alone…

An extended conversation today with a somewhat abrupt ending and a listening time of almost double the usual - at 20 minutes. 

From corporate lawyer to full time writer, Julia Mathison, in (normally) 10 MIN EPS shares her thoughts on experiences, philosophies or observations or based or gleaned from literature or poetry. 

Always a personal musing, featuring personal preferences, with a desired message to be kind to others - you never know what someone is carrying, to follow your hearts direction and to dare to accept the calling of your innate gifts. 

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Musings into a particular instance of serendipity - its ability and power to catch us in the moment and gift us a sense of marvel or of being where we are meant to be…

A daughter’s quest to buy the books her father had written and the people she meets who have treasured his words. 

Inspiration taken from an encounter in a bookstore, with the bookstore owner and the potency stories have to tether or confound us, both in fiction and in our own lives, which can often rival for that title. 

From corporate lawyer to full time writer, Julia Mathison, in 10 MIN EPS shares her thoughts,  be it experience based or gleaned from literature or poetry. 

Always a personal musing, featuring personal preferences, with a desired message to be kind, to follow your hearts direction and dare to accept the calling of your innate gifts. 

Notes: 

1. SEAMUS HEANEY - Irish poet and Nobel Prize foe Literature recipient- I corrected myself but was right on the first pronunciation of Heaney, not the correction. 

2. EDMUND BLUNDEN (1896 - 1974)  - English poet, author and critic. Professor at Oxford and multiple times nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature. 

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Musings into the power of evoking cadence and rhythm into our speech and our lives.

A small act of autonomy and rebellion is to deliver a message that lands with people because you have been intentional about what you say and how you say it.  Cadence contemplated in our lives gifts a undeniable harmony, as seasons do in nature. 

Inspiration gleaned, again, from the life of the inimitable Mr. Robert Redford - how his movies, on-screen characters and off-screen interactions left a memorable impression on a younger Ethan Hawke. 

How world leaders (one in particular) at present lack a cadence or charisma and how the use of base tones and course language leave a powerful void of diplomacy, leadership, compassion and humanity. 

From corporate lawyer to full time writer, Julia Mathison, in this 10 MIN EP, explores how cadence is key to converting a powerful individual or collective message. A discernment to embrace, as we make our mark in small ways on the world. 

Always a personal musing, featuring personal preferences, with a desired message to be kind, follow your hearts direction and accept the calling of your innate gifts. 

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Musings into life and legacy, creativity and confusion in a week of both violent and peaceful deaths, in U.S news, and at home. Inspiration gleaned from the life of the inimitable Mr. Robert Redford - how his movies, on-screen characters and off-screen presence, causes and words helped me regain trust and faith in an artistic life. How story-telling was loved and important to him from a young age and why stories matter, why curiosity and support for stories should be encouraged and fostered. Also a poem shared, called LOST by DAVID WHYTE - to console us that even in the darkest forest, the trees are not lost. To counsel us, when lost, to simply stand still… 

From corporate lawyer to full time writer, Julia Mathison, in this 10 min Ep, explores how our choices, words and roles in life become our legacy. How the choices made in curiosity, success and humility, what we stand and advocate for hold up in death and why our own stories are important… even when we fear they are not.

DEDICATED to the memory of two great gentlemen, Mr Robert Redford and Mr Brian Tierney.

Always a personal musing, featuring personal preferences, with a desired message to follow your hearts direction and accept the calling of your innate gifts. 

Poem referenced: 

LOST - DAVID WHYTE

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Raw musings when GRIEF is at the wheel and implodes like a grenade. An unedited 10 minutes into the musings of BLENDED WISDOM. From corporate lawyer to full time writer, Julia Mathison explores a journey unexpected into grief and it’s ability to detonate us emotionally and physically.

The internal cost of grief is examined and the way it ricochets through our being,

A small offering of hope that the fruit born of grief may be for a purpose and not necessarily our own - that the fruit of the ride, the learning in the lessons yielded by grief are to serve others as well, once we can convert the grief into something aligned with who we become in and from it. As the apple tree weathers storms but is not nourished by her own fruit, so too can we digest this lesson in time and allow it to shape us. The person lost may also be the one for whom we continue to live, create, offer our gifts in the world, in honour of and for them...

Always a personal musing, featuring personal preferences, with a desired message to follow your hearts direction and accept the calling of your innate gifts. 

Books references made to:

The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion

Blue Nights - Joan Didion

Grief is the Thing with Feathers - Max Porter

(Title taken presumably from the Emily Dickinson poem - “Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all...) 

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A long break between episode 1 and 2 as LOSS intervened and GRIEF took the wheel. A powerful 10 minutes into the musings of BLENDED WISDOM. From corporate lawyer to full time writer, Julia Mathison speaks into a journey unexpected into grief and it’s ability to strip us of words.

The period we look to others for words of wisdom, solace or meaning when our own fall short. A personal perspective on losing a witness to dreams in your life, at any age, and to the realisation that the vision you have for your life may become a way to honour. That a vision that steers your life and is aligned comes at no cost to anyone and in the void, that is GRIEF, may be the rudder that gently guides and blesses every tentative next step. 

Always a personal musing, featuring personal preferences, yet with a desired message to follow your hearts direction and accept the calling of your innate gifts. 

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A first episode into the musings of BLENDED WISDOM. From corporate lawyer to full time writer, Julia Mathison speaks into a refreshing perspective on faith when your art is yet to flip the prosperity switch.
The Rick Pino note of wisdom that inspired a new take on the notion that a creator has been given  the power to create wealth and deservedly so.

A personal musing, featuring personal preferences, yet with a message to follow your hearts direction and the calling of your innate gifts. 

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