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Summer Story Time.
I won’t begin at the beginning. That’s not how the stories used to go. A beginning, a middle, an end and a meaning. Those pulp page morality stories are not true fairie tales. I won’t tell you all I know and I’m not running out of threads. Myths, yarns and mysteries are what I spin in, move in. As a witch, as a writer, as a woman. Story weavers are older than time. Celtic society venerated storytellers and their wisdom. I came to writing as I came to breathing, through being born. Broken arms and wounded healer I write onwards, inking down the souls. The oldest stories are sung and…
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Protected: Welsh Transcript for Workshop: There Is A Charge For The Eyeing Of My Scars: Marginalised Voices Writing About Pain & Possibility
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How to Handle “But you don’t look sick” and “so, what’s wrong with you?”
Before I became ill I hadn’t much experience with random people and their unconsidered comments. After I was ill, my world seemed to be saturated with them. I have so often been shocked and stumped at the remarks and prejudice from seemingly reasonable people. An off colour, off hand phrase could anger me and I would let it throw me off for a day or so, maybe even longer. Now I am more prepared; I have more understanding. Let’s start with quoting some of their words, so you know just what I’m talking about. “But you don’t look sick.” “I know a girl, she’s just like you, in a wheelchair…
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Trailblazer Interview: Dr Larry Berkelhammer & Living Well with Chronic Illness
Trailblazer Interview: Dr Larry Berkelhammer & Living Well with Chronic Illness P.S Check out more Trailblazer Interview here.
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Trailblazer Interview: Holli Thompson and Nutritional Style Living
Trail Blazers’ Interview #4: Holli Thompson and Nutritional Style Living from Grace Quantock on Vimeo.