Yes. You're very right. I've slept since deciding to ease back, and have barely for the last year. It's funny how we can carry things around for so long and not really realise the effects of them.
I’ve found, after many years, that I’ll always carry around some things. I try to keep them from telling my body to dance to their tune. Work in progress.
I fear you might tire of me (yet again) saying how much your writing resonates with me. But Ali, your writing resonates so much with me! It hums in my core and pesters and itches long after the page is shut...
Absolutely. Funnily enough I kept thinking last month, when I was back in Scotland, about how elemental I was feeling, for the first time in a long time. It does you so much good to be in the wind and the rain and the mud and the water. Your trip looked incredible.
It was! Nothing like standing on a Hebridean beach with the wind on your face and salt spray in the air to feel that connection with the elements and take our selves out of the raging headspace and head fuck that goes on and down into the heart.
it's a really scary time for you. You need to try and think you've done the very best you can, now it's out your hands. Totally get it, and am very bad at taking my own advice.
I’ve found that after turbulence comes peace; after release comes relief. Wishing you well.
Yes. You're very right. I've slept since deciding to ease back, and have barely for the last year. It's funny how we can carry things around for so long and not really realise the effects of them.
I’ve found, after many years, that I’ll always carry around some things. I try to keep them from telling my body to dance to their tune. Work in progress.
I fear you might tire of me (yet again) saying how much your writing resonates with me. But Ali, your writing resonates so much with me! It hums in my core and pesters and itches long after the page is shut...
Camping will be good - elemental.
Absolutely. Funnily enough I kept thinking last month, when I was back in Scotland, about how elemental I was feeling, for the first time in a long time. It does you so much good to be in the wind and the rain and the mud and the water. Your trip looked incredible.
It was! Nothing like standing on a Hebridean beach with the wind on your face and salt spray in the air to feel that connection with the elements and take our selves out of the raging headspace and head fuck that goes on and down into the heart.
I bet! I desperately want to go back to Colonsay to redraft my second novel, to be hit by the wind and the spray.
second novel sounds exciting, well done. Freaking out over this first one of mine going off & responses to some of the themes - you'll get it!
it's a really scary time for you. You need to try and think you've done the very best you can, now it's out your hands. Totally get it, and am very bad at taking my own advice.
Thanks Ali 🥰
I hear you sister x
I thought you might.xx