In a world (and brain) full of chaos, I hope to make this cosy little space my calm. The last few years have been a rollercoaster of change, loss, health issues, answers and dare I say it, the first tentative steps toward acceptance. So here you’ll find my thoughts and feelings on life, as it happens. Maybe, along the way, you’ll stumble across some things that resonate with you and you’ll see you’re not alone. You’re different, weird even, but in the best of ways. It’s the little quirks and idiosyncrasies that make you you and they deserve to be celebrated too.
I’ll be talking health and chronic illness. The good, the bad and the downright ugly, without the coat of gloss you often find online. It isn’t always inspiring. It isn’t always a ‘learning experience’. Sometimes it just sucks… and that’s okay too. It’s okay to not feel brave or confident or strong. It’s not a failure to let yourself actually feel deflated, defeated or just plain crap from time to time. Feel whatever it is you need to feel in order to be able to move onwards, upwards can wait for now.
Down the Rabbit Hole
I’m also planning to share my many and often changing hobbies, my hyper-fixations and those weird little internet rabbit holes they can lead you to. I am forever looking into one thing, only to find myself five hours and multiple tangents later, on a completely different albeit equally fascinating topic that bears no relation to my original research. It’s amazing the weird and wonderful (and sometimes disturbing) facts you stumble across… like that there’s a point in a cremation when the meat would be perfectly cooked… anyone? Or maybe it’s just me that collects the gruesome little tidbits.
I’m an artist, a reader, a gamer, a dreamer and a wrangler of words and stories. It’s been several years since I last wrote anything, the words and stories just out of reach, refusing to be tamed. I hope as this blog grows, that I’ll be able to start to find them again; reignite that passion and let the enchanted lands, cities and people grow, cell by cell, brick by brick and word by word.
So welcome to this little piece of chaos; this little piece of me. While there’s still plenty of things I need to work on, and lots to share; I’m finally learning to be more comfortable in my own skin… one side quest at a time.