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May 13, 2015 Jen EdenLeave a comment

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Posted in LifeTagged calm, chaos, equilibrium, inner peace, life, peace

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Hello, friends. I don’t know about you but I’m feeling sort of...stretched, right now. A little wrung out by life. There are brilliant books I’ve read that are waiting for reviews but I’m struggling to articulate much about them. There are ideas I want to put down in the pages of my notebook but when I put pen to paper it seems to stick there and my hand won’t move across the page as it should. I need to move my body but it feels weighed down with pain and lethargy which make curling up under a blanket much more appealing.

Just a gentle Sunday reminder to practice self care before, during, and after any experience that challenges your well-being. Your boundaries matter. 🙏💛

Spent lots of time outside this morning enjoying the sunshine on a lovely long walk with the pup and then clearing the flowerbeds in our garden and doing some planting. Spending time in nature is beautifully soothing and always helps blow the cobwebs away. Now I’m nicely tired, and some of the week’s tension has seeped out of my body, I’m hunkering down with a good book.

After discovering @farida.d.author’s account earlier this week I just couldn’t resist treating myself to a copy of one of her books. After a brief flick through I can tell this is going to be one I savour in mouthfuls of “YES”. As I’ve grown up through my twenties and into my thirties, I’ve grown a steady and deep appreciation of writing that captures all the joy and frustration and magic and rage of the different experiences of womanhood in this world. Finding those words that have created a way to whisper and shout out of pages, even as we’re (still) expected to be quiet is thrilling and empowering. I have just finished reading The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo and it too brought me that ethereal sense of recognition. Despite not having lived the same experiences, the power of those words resonated somewhere in my gut. I laughed and loved and wept and raged and burned with Xiomara. The power of the written word is truly incredible and I am so grateful for everything it has opened to me.

I’m definitely late to the party on this one - working through a ridiculously long and awesome list of recommendations and discovered reads as I continue to try and diversify my reading habits - but I’ve just started reading Pet and I am LOVING it. The writing is deft and vivid, the concept hugely original and the way Emezi has woven different intersections of identity into the characters just feels so natural. I love discovering speculative fiction that feels entirely fresh and I have high hopes for this one based on the first four chapters.

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