Today, I am grateful and thankful for,
- getting off at the wrong tube station, and for the beautiful walk it lead to, in the sunshine.
- for the kindness of Charlie to listen and offer good advice
- for taking a risk to try to offer a deeply meaningful apology.
Today, I am grateful and thankful for,
- those who are supporting Child Q, and those working for progress from this injustice.
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- the generosity of a friend who I have known from childhood, her openness and her wise advice.
- for walking, and recognising a further layer of weight just drop off, further forgiveness showing on new names in the mix of it all. It's not so painful so more, less so that I can shake and it falls.
Today, I am thankful and grateful for,
- the kindness of friends, family and colleagues offering support around overwhelming feelings, accompanied by a level of depression. Particularly recognisable in the mornings, getting out of bed.
- for the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, from Iran.
- recognising, through informed consideration, that abandoning something is the correct choice sometimes.
Today, I am grateful and thankful for,
- how writing thoughts and feelings down really does get you to a certain clarity that circulating ideas in your head sometimes cannot.
- Stuart Jeffries talk on postmodernism at Conway Hall.
- Enjoying sushi in a nearby park.
- the film, Red Rocket by Sean Baker.
Today, I am grateful and thankful for,
- finding a rhythm and freedom to relax and dance on my own at a club last night
- marmalade
- a good period of managing my addiction to chocolate. The feelings of compulsion have been low, and I've been not having very much at all.
Today, I am grateful and thankful for
- a cool shower in the dark, with a light white phone light in the corner of the bathroom.
- the opportunity to highlight a colleague's determination through a difficult time.
- a dear friend calling from abroad to discuss their feelings around the brutal harm happening in Ukraine.
Today, I am thankful and grateful for,
- having an album from my teenage years, crack open a flood of emotions around so many things that have happened to me over the past couple of decades. A damn broken, finally, on work I'd been doing, and opened up all these important feelings.
- for the vocal and practical resistance to war, and support for Russian and Ukrainian people wanting peace and safety, particularly those who have worked tirelessly to provide safe passage to those fleeing.
- for a lovely meal with someone whose company I have missed
Today, I am thankful and grateful for,
- Industrial Coast, supporting humanitarian aid for Ukraine, via World Central Kitchen
- a discussion in Open Dialogue around what is happening in Ukraine, and Russia's invasion.
- meeting someone who I connected with strongly very quickly. I felt a special love.
