polaroids, poems and prose. out here writing essays about life through my newsletter, mindfork.
London, England
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Final call to enter this year's National Poetry Competition! Your chance to win £5,000 and enter the competition's hall of fame. Judges @RomalynAnte, John McAuliffe and @ssexton02 await your poems. Closes midnight 31 October. npc.poetrysociety.org.uk
What would you do if you had all the money and time in the world?
Stop hiding, we can see you - a short essay exploring this question.
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A fellow author noted that English sounds like hissing.
Naturally, I wrote a haiku, with a sneaky Rick and Morty reference 🐍
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but you're gonna be shit at whatever you start, so stop delaying the inevitable. Start now.
My mind takes me far but my heart dreams of return.
South Africa will always have my heart, while my mind travels back to London. – at Stellenbosch, South Africa
“What do you say to the haters?”
Maria Sakkari: “It’s not very ladylike, but I say fuck them. I don’t give a fuck.”
Mood 👏
Being a woman isn't a sentence to be served. It isn't obedience, sweetness, passivity, or waiting your turn.
To me, “woman” means beauty, confidence, empathy, power and agency. Being a woman means having the capacity to achieve greatness, love deeply, and create immeasurably.
So often, women feel ignored and undervalued, especially in the workplace.
So, I'm sharing a poem and a story to build the confidence of women in our work culture.
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Share with anyone you feel would benefit from a little boost 🥰
"Surrendering to joy doesn't mean I'm abandoning you."
Read how grief shapes our identity:
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Inspired by the work of Hua Hsu's memoir which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2023 👁️
For more stories, ideas and thoughts inspired by bizarre life experiences and shaped by psychology and neuroscience, subscribe to my newsletter, Mindfork 🧠👇
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“You must be a common scholar before you can be an uncommon one”
From Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
To me, love is a pure idea forged in flesh, awkwardly maybe… sometimes the lines get crossed. Or you get the wrong number.
But that’s nobody’s fault. It’ll always be like that as long as we’re in physical form. As a matter of principle.
- Haruki Murakami, “Dance Dance Dance”