On One Hand

I can’t believe she was only 8 when I first wrote this - these four years have flown by amongst all the change, the upheaval. Today will mark the 12th birthday of my darling first born, how totally perfect I can share a bit about her entry to earth with you!

To read the blog: https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/welcome-gracie-juniper

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I will never look back on this time and regret it. I will remember what mattered most.

Read the blog, https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/what-matters-most

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In this Weird Time it feels like every system is crumbling, breaking down.

I think we’re being called to radically reshape what we’ve inherited

Are we up to the challenge?

Read the blog here, https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/the-breakdown

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What if home is only ever a feeling?

Read the blog; https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/home-part-1

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As a habitual do-er I’m learning to pause, to pull back all my energy, all my force, and to just…be.

Read the blog: https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/re-treat

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A new month during This Weird Time and my life is in flux in ways I didn’t anticipate. How do I navigate with any sense of authenticity, how do I keep my bearings when the world feels mad?

I focus on the bright spots.

Read the blog, https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/bright-spots

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Join me for a reading of some short fiction! Sometimes my blog bores me, escaping into a world of my creation helps ease the repetition of a well-worn life.

I’ve been slowly recording these blog entries from 2020 on and loading them up to Spotify, Apple Podcast and here on Substack. If you enjoy these, please share or consider subscribing to support my writing journey.

Read the blog: https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/the-pinecone-short-fiction

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A friend and I chatted about the need to loosen up, to feel more joy, to have fun in the domesticity of everyday life.

Read the blog: https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/pleasure-joy-fun

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Where logic meets matters of the heart.

Read the blog, https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/heart-magic

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I almost couldn’t read this one aloud.

It’s Good Friday 2020…

Recording this piece dropped me right back into this moment - watching as my kids attempt to ‘socially distance’ themselves from their peers, leaving me unsettled and angry.

Knowing I’d be met with outrage, I started to share my concerns about what this Weird Time was about to herald for us all, and I was unfriended over and over - but I was also met with a lot of compassion and understanding. Spoiler alert: I called a lot of what unfolded over the next two years.

Ready for this?

Original blog found here: https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/is-it-the-right-thing

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