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How do you want to feel in 2025?
Same same but different is the phrase that springs to my mind. Words borrowed from a tapas bar in Bath that feel bang on for the first week of this…
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Sliding into the end of the year, slowly
Whilst remembering to keep a cool head and warm heart.
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On showing curiosity and tenderness in our conversations
How can we keep the conversation warm when we're separated by time zones and shape shifting family dynamics.
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Yours in companionable silence
Other than the sound of my hand moving the pencil across the page.
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Nine years later...
On remembering that life builds around the loss and that feelings will continue to ebb and flow.
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Living a gentle life

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Grief & loss

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On showing curiosity and tenderness in our conversations
How can we keep the conversation warm when we're separated by time zones and shape shifting family dynamics.
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Harriet Mason
6
Nine years later...
On remembering that life builds around the loss and that feelings will continue to ebb and flow.
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Harriet Mason
2
'But Victoria Sponges are Wednesday afternoon cakes'
It wasn't the response I was hoping for after whipping up a Victoria Sponge one Saturday afternoon a year or so ago, but I understood what my teenager…
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Health: breast cancer & chronic fatigue

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This writing & reading life

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Home and belonging

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Gently Does It
Gently Does It
On living gently & feeling at home in your body, landscape and relationships | Inhales books & Yorkshire tea | Loves cloud gazing, big sky & fresh air
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