Today, I am grateful and thankful for,
- The opportunity to meet ex-colleagues face-to-face for the first time.
- Feelings of impotency and pressure regarding my relationship with the news coming out of Ukraine, and how that helps inspire thoughts around changing behaviour, what to do.
- People protesting with poems around UCU strike.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/unions/ucu
Today, I am grateful and thankful for,
- the visceral horror of the film, Threads (1984)
- All people working towards the neutralising and defeating of the attack on the Ukraine.
- All people working towards removing Putin from office, away from the power to unleash nuclear bombs.
Today, I am grateful and thankful for
- those who oppose Greg Abbot's punitive orders to the Commissioner of Texas, and those who support and help to protect Trans people from cruelty and harm.
- The 'Talk For Health' programme by Nicky Forsythe.
- The anticipation of my parents visiting next Tuesday, and a visit to Whitechapel Gallery
Today, I am grateful and thankful for,
- Tish Murtha and her care for Elswick.
- The power of collective grief - helped me to feel someone who I did not know, but can now recognise their resonance, their creativity, their imagination and belief. I have not earned the place to mention your name here yet, but I hope I will as time goes on, and I can engage more with your work, to form my own private connection.
- An alternative route to a regular destination.
- Feeling the gentler, but firm Storm Franklin on a walk, having my arms moved with the wind.
Today, I am grateful and thankful for
- Temple Of Seitan, with a delicious Temple Deluxe, Dalston's Rhubarb and Fries.
- The opportunity to stand-up against someone being cruel about a friend.
- Kurt Cobain on his birthday
- Historic England's Another England (historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/another-england)
Today, I am thankful and grateful for,
- Broken Records podcast, by Pushkin.
- A wonderful day of experience involving Golden Teachers, Big Jet TV, and various music.
- The friendliness of friends afar
Today, I am grateful and thankful for
- The 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Saltley Gate, and Arthur Scargill's work.
- Sharon Graham's intervention, and using her union support to influence Labour behaviour in support of workers.
- A clear blood test.
Today, I am grateful and thankful for,
- The encouragement of a friend to take action on an issue.
- The confidence and trust of a friend to alert me to talking over her / mansplaining. For their acceptance of my apology.
- Spending a day outside for training, with the breeze in my hair. A strange kind of presence, online and outside.
Today, I am grateful and thankful for
- the opportunity to advocate for friends, musicians
- connecting to where North, South, East, West and all in between is - inside my bedroom.
- learning about Qigong
Today, I am thankful and grateful for
- a friend teaching me techniques for playing a Gong
- Folk Horror Festival IV, at The Peer Hat, Manchester
- The feeling of going up steps into an attick
- The generosity and hospitality of friends in Manchester
Today, I am grateful and thankful for
- The bravery of Lisa Squire, wanting to meet the person who killed her daughter.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-60227266
- anticipating an appointment with The Golden Teacher
- Being more comfortable sitting with Doubt
Today, I am grateful and thankful for
- Lucy Hopkins, and her show 'The Unknown'
- The fascades of Islington in the nighttime
- The bravery of Harriet Robson
