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In Tragedy…

November 14, 2015 Jen Eden2 Comments

...hold on to humanity.

Posted in LifeTagged compassion, hope, humanity, life, light, Paris, poetry, tragedy

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If you’d told me a year ago that I would voluntarily pick up and read a non-fiction book about economic theory, I’d have laughed at you. If you’d told me I’d enjoy - even love - it, I’d have thought you clearly didn’t know me at all. How wrong I would have been. I am very much a fiction reader. I struggle to get into non-fiction and, as I primarily read for escapism, even non-fic I find interesting doesn’t tend to serve my reading needs. As such, I can count on one hand the non-fiction books that have had a genuine impact on me. Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth is about to join that list. I haven’t yet finished this book and I am taking my time with it because there is so much incredible information and food for thought in its pages. But even just reading the introduction completely blew my understanding of economics out of the water and left me hungry for more. (And also for doughnuts.) I first came across @doughnuteconomics and Kate Raworth’s work at the @wep_uk conference last year and was so intrigued and inspired by what she had to say that I had to get the book. My general avoidance of non-fiction led me to put off reading it but I finally picked it up last week in the course of my research for a client piece on the circular economy. I am so glad I started reading it and I TRULY urge everyone to give it a go.

Happy #WorldBookDay bookworms! Although, really, when you’re a bookworm, every day is World Book Day, right?! This little book stack are all recent purchases from @bookshop_org_uk (spot the dog sitting patiently in the background hoping I’ll give her the box the books came in to play with...) I’ve already finished Cinderella Is Dead and posted a full review I my blog last night - link in bio if you’d like to read. Moving into The Killing Moon next but I’m also still reading The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah, The Once and Future Witches, The List of Shit That Made Me a Feminist and, randomly, Doughnut Economics. Oh, and listening to The Starless Sea. Is that a lot of books to be reading at the same time? Yes, yes it is. Will that stop me? Absolutely not. Mood reader through and through. I’m also a little magpie like when it comes to books - even when I have several on the go already, if one catches my eye I’ve picked it up before I even realise what I’m doing.

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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.

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