Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- Being given the offer of a new job, with people who have been very supportive in preparing for starting.
- The opportunity to pause and reflect on how to approach the next chapter of time.
- To have been lucky to having lived a life where I have access to documentation, proof of identification.
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- different kinds of interesting people at the bus stop
- a dog swimming a football in its mouth down the canal
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- the opportunity to book a nice hotel room for my Manchester trip
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- the feeling of taking a chance on a film at the cinema.
- YouTube video about Autism and ASPD, and the issues raised by the subject, Cassy
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- to finally email Wireless to delete account (associated with TalkTV, Talk radio). I've done enough research about their programming now.
- The regular patrons of The Victory pub
- the birthdays of three friends
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- for the end of Tory power in National Governance
- for Jeremy Corbyn being elected back to Islington North as our constituency MP
- interesting piece of theatre around British Chinese identity (amongst many other things) at Soho Theatre (The Dao of Unrepresentative British Chinese Experience)
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- some gardening out in the sunshine
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- the return of a missing person
- Iced vanilla matcha latte with strawberry gratings
- the thoughts Kinds Of Kindness provoked
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- the drama of a football game
- a period of solitary outside swimming (no-one else in the public pond for 20mins!)
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- meeting new and interesting and joyful people
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- the way the summer evening light came through a window of Keynes Library
- the reminder of the importance of decentralised information storage and maintenance
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- completing a piece of writing
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- the release of Julian Assange
- those seeking peace and justice in Kenya
- The Prince Edward pub, Holloway
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- The feel of visiting Beckton.
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- the joy of a young girl celebrating her 9th Birthday in the Hackney Marshes.
- a later evening swim, with the sunset hitting a more acute angle across the water
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- the paintings of Kandinsky, and The Blue Rider collective.
- the musical and wider ideas of Noh specialist composer Daryl Jamieson.
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- a client finding a positive new home
- an after work non-alcoholic beer, watching England v Denmark second half in a pub
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- the humbling experience that a cursory two-source news verification was not enough (and what sources! Jacobin, The New Statesman) With apologies to Mr. Chomsky, for failing your lessons.
- the spirit of the learning facilitator today
- for starting some writing that’s been waiting
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- for 1, we are the people, 2, we won’t be silenced 3, stop the bombing now now now
- The understanding and action of a seller when I received the purchase in a broken condition
- The Owl & Hitchhiker pub
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- serendipity of seeing a friend, unplanned, in the pond
- playful clowning performances at Whittington Community Centre
- meeting strangers with brave hearts who take absurdity seriously
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- for a good conversation over coffee with a friend.
- the feel of enjoying a non-alcoholic beer outside Brasserie Zedel with good friends.
- Redemption Roasters coffee shop company - helping to reduce reoffending.
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- The possibilities of a non-custodial sentence
- The performance of Sara Jimenez, Ave de Plata at the Lilian Baylis Studio
- The further expressions of memorials for those lost 7 years ago in the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Those that continue to highlight how injustices remain.
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- My friends launching a new chapter with their excellent cloth shop
- The flavours of confidences of the attendees and their gorgeous fashions
- A gentle meandering canal walk home
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- the feelings associated with a power cut; the disorientation, the sharp change of plans, the fortune to feel it as a novelty
- the privilege to read to my friends' daughter before bed
- the Kenneth Dodd pub and his developments
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- The many years of work of Liz Rutherford helping people who are or have been homeless.
- The friendly and relaxing atmosphere of the Classroom N7 Café.
- a moth leaving the room into the great outdoors with a little encouragement.
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- The faith a client has put in me, in spite of barriers and how new I am in their life.
- To be able to hold the word ‘Incel’ after a period of time, and move past the fears and judgements, to allow myself the imagination and thoughtfulness to separate out specific behaviours, and to critique them specifically, and to see what causes and transforms them. To balance a compassionate approach with one that recognises where someone is accountable for various things they have done/believe, and what retribution or justice might look like. Fear is death. No fear, only life and change and growth.
- the guitar playing of Paco Moyano, and the flamenco dancing of Eva Yerbabuena (Yerbagüena). The spirit of duende!
Today, I am grateful and thankful for:
- having the courage to ask someone in the auditorium to stop looking at their phone after they had done so a few times, and it was distracting.
- that they were understanding and changed their behaviour.
- for the bathing ponds at Hampstead Heath, this time, specifically the mixed one - shared with friends - a different but wonderful mood there. I'm grateful for the Men's Bathing Ponds, too. A special place.
