Bright Life! Bright Life!
Hello my lightbulbs! How have you been? I had a draft ready for you last week, but my laptop decided that it was hungry and swallowed it whole; I hope it was delicious. Since we last spoke - I completed my Masters in Education (wahoo!) and am awaiting results (wish me luck!). I also finished [...]
Dear Dad, Happy birthday! It’s been three years since you celebrated one- how crazy is that? I wanted to write this because this year feels different than the others. It’s been a bit of a brain dump so probably not the most cohesive thing I’ve written, but I suppose that’s fine all things considered. I also [...]
Grief is a very flexible pain; it forward folds and back flips around our life, stepping or hopping away only to roll back into us again. We’ve talked a little about the stages of grief, but today’s focus isn’t on how grief affects us, but how we can affect grief. Extending from our opening bendy [...]
2nd October 2019, nearly two months since my dad passed away and just over a month since I returned to Japan, I had a weird start to the day. I woke up not long after 5am from a pretty horrific nightmare. I’ve been blessed/ cursed with extremely vivid dreams since I could remember. They're often [...]
On the morning of Saturday 10th August I got the call from my mum telling me that my dad had passed away. After a month of grief, disbelief, travelling home for the funeral and back again straight into work- I have to say I feel a bit whip-lashed. There will come a time when I'll [...]
Over the last few months, I’ve started to notice a pretty melancholic trend amongst our millennial generation. This won’t come as a shock to you, as all the ‘I’m dead inside’ memes have been circulating for a while now. But, as I've been meeting more people recently, I've began to notice it more and more. [...]